Green v. Grant
Green, administrator v. Grant, administrator
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Little, J.
1. A woman who married one of two brothers and survived them both, she being of no blood kin to either, and her husband dying first, is in no event an heir at law of the other.
2. As against one not an heir, an administrator may maintain an action for the recovery of land belonging to the estate of his intestate, without showing a necessity to administer the land for the purpose of paying debts. Civil Code, § 3357.
3. A judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction is binding and conclusive upon all parties properly before the court when it was rendered, and a de- , fendant who, by a plea or answer in a pending case, seeks to avoid an existing judgment on the ground that he was not duly served, must, when there is as to him an entry of service purporting to have been made by a sheriff, traverse the return and make the officer a party to the proceeding.
4. This case, though somewhat complicated, is, upon the facts disclosed by the record, controlled by the familiar rules above laid down. The court did not err in any of the rulings excepted to, nor in directing a verdict for the plaintiff. Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concurring.
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