Knight v. Lasseter
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, in Pike Superior Court. Tried before Judge Starke, April Term, 1854. Inl838, Chas. Knight died, leaving a will, and thereby appointing Solomon Lasseter his executor who proved the will, and was duly qualified as such executor, and took the estate into possession. In 1840, Solomon Lasseter died intestate, and Martha Lasseter was appointed administratrix on his estate.
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In Equity, in Pike Superior Court. Tried before Judge Starke, April Term, 1854. Inl838, Chas. Knight died, leaving a will, and thereby appointing Solomon Lasseter his executor who proved the will, and was duly qualified as such executor, and took the estate into possession. In 1840, Solomon Lasseter died intestate, and Martha Lasseter was appointed administratrix on his estate. She subsequently intermarried with James A. Smith, who, by virtue of such intermarriage, reduced the whole of the estate of Charles Knight, deceased, to possession. After the intermarriage of' Smith and Mrs. Lasseter,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Sarnes, J.
delivering the opinion..
[1.] The Act of 1845, referred to in the decision of the Court below, is as follows: “that from and after the passage of this Act, whenever any executor or administrator may have been heretofore, or may be hereafter, removed, or depart this life, chargeable to the estate which he or she represented, it shall be the duty of such removed executor or administrator, or the representatives of such deceased executor or administrator, to account, fully, with the administrator de bonis non, who may be appointed to finish the administration of said…
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