Newsom v. Dickerson

This is an action of debt upon an administration bond against the security of the administrator, by the only distributee of the intestate’s estate. The *229declaration avers that there remains in the hands of the said Ellis Maddox, as such administrator of the goods and chattels of the intestate, a residue of $ 1,200, to which the plaintiffs are entitled. It then proceeds to assign breaches : 1st, That said Maddox did not well and truly, and according to law, administer the estate of the said Betsy Harding, the intestate. 2dly, That he did not “ make a true and just account of his administration…