Scruggs v. Burke
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equity. Executors azid administrators. Before Judge Roney. Jefferson superior cozzz't. May term, 1888. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
We think the court was right in sustaining the demurrer to this bill for the want of equity. The will directed the executor (the plaintiff’ in error) to sell all of the property of the testator, and to pay his just debts first, and after the debts were paid to invest the surplus in land for the benefit of his widow azid children. The executor sold nearly all of the personal property, and exchanged the lazzd left by the testator for a smaller tract of land and received $700 in money, *167the difference between the two, and so far as the record discloses, received enough money from…
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