Dowty v. Hall
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Mobile. Heard before the Hon. John A. Poster. The' original bill in this case was filed on the 25th August, 1885, by “William Dowty, a minor under the age of fourteen years, and Cybele Sandford, a lunatic, both suing by William Sandford as their next friend, and said William Sandford; against John W. Hall as administrator de bonis non of the estate of Stephen Dowty, deceased, and George Brown, W. W. Jones, Duval W. Weeks, Henry Dietrich, and…
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Mobile. Heard before the Hon. John A. Poster. The' original bill in this case was filed on the 25th August, 1885, by “William Dowty, a minor under the age of fourteen years, and Cybele Sandford, a lunatic, both suing by William Sandford as their next friend, and said William Sandford; against John W. Hall as administrator de bonis non of the estate of Stephen Dowty, deceased, and George Brown, W. W. Jones, Duval W. Weeks, Henry Dietrich, and Chess Corley & Co., a partnership or corporation doing business by that name and style in Mobile, Alabama;” and sought,…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
— When Mrs. Cybele Dowdy intermarried with William Sandford, she being at the time administratrix of the estate of Stephen Dowty, her deceased husband, he, the said William, became thereby co-administrator with her, and liable for any act of administration she performed after-wards. — 2 Wms. Ex’rs, 6 Amer. Ed., bottom page 966.
William Sandford having the powers, and resting under the liabilities of his wife, Cybele, neither he nor his wife was a proper party complainant, in a suit which seeks to charge her sureties for a devastavit, committed by her; nor can her sureties, under any…
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