Candler v. Clarke
Supreme Court of Georgia
Administrator. Guardian. Sale. Minor. Judgment. Election. Before Judge Richard H. Clark. DeKalb superior court. February term, 1892.
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
In 1871, Benjamin Burdett died intestate, leaving as Ills heirs at law his widow and the children of his deceased daughter, who were minors. The widow, Mrs. I. C., Burdett (afterwards Craig), and Elijah H. Clarke, the father of these children, were appointed administrators. In 1872 and 1873, at public sales by the administrators, under an order of the court of ordinary, the lands of the estate were bid off' in separate parcels by parties who, after taking conveyances thereto, reconveyed to the administrators individually; and the administrators, in their returns to the…
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