Stoutz v. Rouse
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Mobile Probate Court. Tried before lion. P. Williams, jb. In the matter of tlie final settlement of the administration of E. A. Stontz upon the estate of William Rouse, deceased. The facts are sufficiently indicated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
We do not understand it to be seriously controverted, that in rendering the final decree in this cause, the probate court charged the administrator with twenty-seven dollars more than, on the exceptions and proof, he should have been charged with. It is contended for appellee that this was a mere clerical error, which would have been corrected in the court below, on motion; and will be corrected in this court, at the cost of the appellant. To this it is replied by the appellant, that the statute, prescribing such practice, is confined to clerical errors in the circuit court, and does not…
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