Lafferty v. Jelley

In 1850, John M. Daniels departed this life, intestate, at Rising Sun, Indiana, leaving neither widow nor children, but an estate of the value of some 3,000 dollars. Letters of administration upon his estate were granted to Brown, Tapley and Dodd. See Brown v. King, 2 Ind. 520.

In February, 1851, the Court ordered the administrators to pay over the moneys belonging to the estate to James S. Jelley, Esq., as agent of John, James, Nancy, Darius and Boone McGee, alleged infant heirs of said John M. Daniels, deceased. This illegal order was reversed by the Supreme Court. See Tapley v. McGee, 6…