Hunter v. Boykin

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Stukes.

This action was commenced on February 4, 1938, by the distributees at law of Simpson Hunter, who died in the military service in the late World War, against L. D. Boy-kin, who was appointed administrator of the estate of the latter in the Probate Court of Kershaw County in October, 1932, and his bondsman as such, American Surety Company, for'the sum of approximately $1,800.00 (later developed in the testimony to have been reduced to a lesser amount by partial restitution by the Probate Judge) allegedly misapplied by the…