Black v. Elrod

The administrator sold land entrusted to him, for a sum far below its real value, to a brother who was likewise his bondsman, the latter having arranged with a third person to pay *693tlie purchase-price by cutting a small amount of timber from the same land. The amount received was paid over to one of the heirs, while none of the others, several in number, received anything. The purchaser sold the land for $700, after cutting and selling timber estimated to be about 300,000 feet. The record discloses very little conflict as to the facts of the case, and it is undisputed that the administrator…