Dyer v. Jacoway
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Yell Circuit Court in Chancery. Wireiam D. Moose, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. W. D. Jacoway was on the 16th of March, 1867, appointed administrator of the estate of Samuel Dickens, who had died in Yell County on the 2d day of the same month. Jacoway gave bond as administrator, and entered upon the discharge of his duties as administrator of that estate.
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Appeal from Yell Circuit Court in Chancery. Wireiam D. Moose, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. W. D. Jacoway was on the 16th of March, 1867, appointed administrator of the estate of Samuel Dickens, who had died in Yell County on the 2d day of the same month. Jacoway gave bond as administrator, and entered upon the discharge of his duties as administrator of that estate. Afterwards, in 1875, the estate still being in his charge as administrator, he executed to the sureties on his administrator’s bond a mortgage on certain lands owned by him. The conditions of this mortgage are as follows, towit:…
1Opinion of the Court
Riddick, J.,
(after stating the facts.) This is a suit in equity by certain creditors of the estate of Samuel Dickens to be subrogated to the rights of the sureties on the bond of the administrator of that estate in a mortgage executed by the administrator to them to indemnify and protect them from liability on such bond. The complaint .also set up that certain conveyances made by the administrator to his children were fraudulent, and asked that they be set aside. The chancellor found against the plaintiffs on both issues, and in the brief and argument in this court counsel for plaintiff do…
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