Duggan v. Lamar

Babcock died, in Hancock county, intestate. Dr. Burt applied for administration on his estate, and the usual citation was run by the ordinary as prescribed by the code. Upon the day designated in the citation for the administrator to be appointed, Burt declined the administration, and, no one else applying, the ordinary, under the code, appointed as administrator Lamar, clerk of the superior court. The estate consisted of about $13,000 worth of personal property, — bonds, money, diamonds, watches, jewelers’ tools, etc. Lamar applied to the ordinary for leave to sell this property as…