Gibson's Administrator v. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Hamilton

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Perry

Affirming.

One John G-ibson, a resident of Floyd county, Ky., ■and the owner of a small tract of land therein and some $700 or $800, died April, 1929, intestate. At the time of his death he whs a single man, without lineal descendants, but left some seventeen collateral heirs, consisting of brothers and sisters and nieces and nephews, who inherited his estate.

J. M. Clark, the appellant, was appointed and qualified as administrator of the estate, with S. Nunnery, W. P. Mayo, J. M. Hall, and John L. Layne as sureties on his bond as such.

The appellees, Basil…