Bell Ex parte
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Marion Circuit Court. Plon. Tuo. B. Hanly, Circuit Judge, presiding; contended that the commission allowed by the statute (Dig. cji. 4, sec. 108,) for the “ risk and trouble in attending to the settlement” of the estate of a deceased person, should be computed upon the claims composing the estate, and not upon the aggregate amount.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
delivered the opinon of the court.
The estate of Daniel L. Jackson deceased, of which the appellant is administrator, appears to be of the value of the aggregate sum. of about two thousand four hundred and seventy dollars, consisting of personal property, part of which has been sold, and the residue delivered to the widow, at the appraised value, as part of her dower — debts due the estate by bonds and promissory notes, debts due by open account and some county scrip of the county of Monroe.
In an account current rendered to the probate'court of that county, the administrator charged himself…
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