Appeal From Grant of Letters

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  1. Any person who claims a right to execute a will, or to administer on the estate of an intestate, and who thinks that person to be injured by an order of the court awarding letters testamentary or of administration, may appeal to the appropriate court in accordance with § 30-2-609, on giving bond as in other cases of appeal.
  2. After the appropriate court has heard such appeal and a determination is made, the judgment shall be certified to the probate court, that it may proceed in the case accordingly.

Code 1858, §§ 2207, 2208 (deriv. Acts 1794, ch. 1, § 48); Shan., §§ 3940, 3941; Code 1932, §§ 8152, 8153; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 30-110, 30-111; Acts 1988, ch. 854, § 3.

Textbooks. Pritchard on Wills and Administration of Estates (4th ed., Phillips and Robinson), § 555.

Law Reviews.

A Survey of Civil Procedure in Tennessee — 1977, VII. Appellate Review of the Disposition (John L. Sobieski, Jr.), 46 Tenn. L. Rev. 366 (1979).


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