Foster v. Hill

Opinion op the Court by

Sims, Commissioner

— Reversing.

William Hill, a resident of McCreary County, died intestate in September 1933. His son, J. H. Hill, qualified as administrator of the estate in that same month, with T. J. Poster and A. C. Poster signing as sureties his bond for $1,000. In 1936 a petition in equity was filed by some of the heirs seeking a settlement of the estate, and later an amended petition made parties defendant the sureties on the administrator’s bond, alleging that the administrator had converted $890.40 of the personal estate of decedent coming into his hands; that…