Bransford v. Crawford
Supreme Court of Georgia
Administrators and executors. Distribution. Advancement. Before Judge James Johnson. Talbot Superior Court. September Term, 1873. Martha A. Crawford, one of the heirs-at-law of John Bransford, deceased, cited William D. Bransford, the administrator upon his estate, to appear before the ordinary for a settlement. Judgment was rendered in favor of the petitioner for $800 00, whereupon the defendant appealed.
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Administrators and executors. Distribution. Advancement. Before Judge James Johnson. Talbot Superior Court. September Term, 1873. Martha A. Crawford, one of the heirs-at-law of John Bransford, deceased, cited William D. Bransford, the administrator upon his estate, to appear before the ordinary for a settlement. Judgment was rendered in favor of the petitioner for $800 00, whereupon the defendant appealed. Upon the trial in the Superior Court, the petitioner showed that she was the only child of James A. Bransford, who was the son of the intestate, John Bransford; that her father, James A.…
1Opinion of the Court
Trippe, Judge.
1. In the distribution of an estate, every child of the intestate, and if a child be dead, the representative of that distributive share, must first account for any and all advancements made in intestate’s lifetime: Code, section 2582; 23 Georgia, 351.
2. As to the other question made in the record, whether the declarations of the intestate are admissible in evidence as to how he held the notes on his son, to-wit: as advancements and not-as debts, we think the case of West et al., executors, vs. Bolton, 23 Georgia, 351, determines it. It was there held that just such declarations…
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