Cleere v. Cleere
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Eranldin. Heard before the Hon. Thomas Cobbs. The bill in this case was filed on the 15th July, 1878, by Lawrence P. Cleere, a son of George D. Cleere, senior, deceased, against George I). Cleere, junior, individually, as administrator of said decedent’s estate, and as guardian of the complainant, and against several other persons; and sought to compel a settlement of said administration and guardianship, and to enforce a vendor’s lien on…
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Eranldin. Heard before the Hon. Thomas Cobbs. The bill in this case was filed on the 15th July, 1878, by Lawrence P. Cleere, a son of George D. Cleere, senior, deceased, against George I). Cleere, junior, individually, as administrator of said decedent’s estate, and as guardian of the complainant, and against several other persons; and sought to compel a settlement of said administration and guardianship, and to enforce a vendor’s lien on certain lands which the administrator had sold under aii order of the Probate Court, becoming himself the purchaser, for…
1Opinion of the CourtClopton, J.
The only assignments of error urged in argument are directed to that part of the decree from which the appeal is taken, which gives effect to a compromise and settlement entered into by appellant with James E. Moore, as executor of S. S. Anderson. The instrument, which is signed by appellant alone, acknowledges having received from Moore, as such executor, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, by the assignment of the proceeds of one hundred and thirty-one acres of land, specially described, which constituted a part of a large tract pf land mortgaged by appellee, G. D. Oleere, to Anderson.…
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