Wise v. Chaney

Beck, Ch. J.

I. The circuit court of which defendant is judge, sitting as a court of probate in a proceeding touching the settlement of an estate, upon the application of the administrator, made an order requiring plaintiff to pay to the administrator certain money of the estate, which the court found had come into the hands of plaintiff, and which lie failed to pay over. The plaintiff made a showing to purge himself of contempt in failing to obey the order, to the effect that he had received the money as a mere clerk of a prior administrator who had been removed, and that he had disbursed the…