Sligh v. Whitley

1. Where a woman, believing her husband dead, obtains letters of administration upon his estate, and qualifies as the administratrix and gives the required bond, and where subsequently she breaches material provisions of the bond, to the injury of a creditor of the estate, she and her sureties on the bond are liable to such creditor. She, having gained control of her husband’s property by having herself appointed as the administratrix of his estate, will not be heard to deny the legality or validity of that judgment (which she invoked) of the court of ordinary. See, in this connection,…