'Estates :of Deceased Persons—Settlement and Distribution—Exclusive Probate Jurisdiction of Superior Court.—The superior court which has charge of the administration of the estate of a deceased person has exclusive jurisdiction as a court of probate over all questions relating to the settlement and distribution of the estate.

Id.—Deraignment of Title to Estate—Decree of Distribution.— Under our probate system all deraignment of title to the property of deceased persons, whether dying testate or intestate, is-through the decree of distribution -entered as the final act in the administration of the estate.

Id.—Conclusiveness of Decree.—The law of an estate distributed under a will is the decree of distribution and not the will, and the decree of distribution is conclusive upon the whole world.

Id.—Instruction by Court of Equity.—The superior court, sitting as a court of equity, has no jurisdiction of an action brought pending The administration of an estate to instruct the court having probate jurisdiction thereof, as to what distribution of the estate should be made under, the will, after the administration has been completed.

Id.—Action in Equity to Construe Will—Legal Questions—Trusts— Province of Superior Court Settling Estate.—An independent action in equity does not lie in this state to construe a will, whether it involves merely legal questions, or questions relating to the execution of trusts created by the will. It is the province of the superior court Which settles the estate of a deceased person to construe the will and the trusts created thereby; and it may exercise all equity powers necessary for a complete administration of the estate, though not authorized in the limited exercise of its probate jurisdiction to determine controversies not within the scope of such administration.

Id.—Equitable Action in Same Court Having Probate Jurisdiction— Dismissal—Void Judgment.—An action in equity brought in the same court which has probate jurisdiction over the estate, to obtain from that court sitting in equity a construction of the will for the same court sitting in probate, cannot be entertained, and must be dismissed. Any judgment rendered therein would be void.

Id.—Cases Distinguished—Change of Constitution.—Cases for the construction of wills and of trusts thereunder arising under the former constitution, which vested all equity jurisdiction in the district courts, and established separate probate courts, are inapplicable to the present judicial system established under the new constitution, which vests both equity and probate jurisdiction in the superior court. One judge of the superior court sitting in equity cannot control another sitting in probate.