Strange v. Graham
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Probate Court of Macon. In tbe matter of the insolvent estate of Littleberry Strange, deceased, on final settlement of the accounts and vouchers of Benjamin Strange, the administrator. The said decedent died, intestate, in February, 1875; and his estate was regularly declared insolvent.
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Appeal from the Probate Court of Macon. In tbe matter of the insolvent estate of Littleberry Strange, deceased, on final settlement of the accounts and vouchers of Benjamin Strange, the administrator. The said decedent died, intestate, in February, 1875; and his estate was regularly declared insolvent. On final settlement of the administrator’s accounts, the creditors sought to charge him with the following items, as assets of the estate, which were not included in his account as stated by himself, namely — an undivided interest in a library of law-books, consisting of several hundred…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
On the testimony disclosed in.this record, we can not learn that any partnership dealings were had between Gunn & Strange, after the dissolution of the firm in 1867 or 1868, by the election of the latter to the circuit bench. All the testimony bearing on the question shows that, from that time, to the death of Judge Strange — more than six years afterwards — the law books of Gunn & Strange were in the individual possession of Gunn, he claiming and exercising acts of ownership over them. This, in the absence of other proof, operated a bar of all claim by Strange, or his administrator, to share…
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