Jones v. Etheridge
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the County court of Wilcox county. At the June term of the Orphans’ court of Wilcox County, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, upon the ap,-plication of Allen Etheridge, one of the heirs of the estate of Absalom Jones, deceased, a notice was issued to John Jones,.administrator of the estate of said decedent, to appear at the next term of the said court,- and make settlement of his administration of said estate.
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Error to the County court of Wilcox county. At the June term of the Orphans’ court of Wilcox County, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, upon the ap,-plication of Allen Etheridge, one of the heirs of the estate of Absalom Jones, deceased, a notice was issued to John Jones,.administrator of the estate of said decedent, to appear at the next term of the said court,- and make settlement of his administration of said estate. And at the October term of said court, in the same' year, said Allen Etheridge came, and having suggested to the court that a devastavit had been committed by said John Jones,…
1Opinion of the CourtCollier, C. J.
It appears from the record, that John Jones was appointed administrator of the estate of Absalom Jones, deceased, and in the course of his administration, gave two bonds, upon the demand of the Orphans’ court, with different sureties in each, — • that afterwards his letters of administration were revoked by the court, and the defendant appointed administrator in his stead, and upon being called on for a settlement of his accounts, the Orphans’ court rendered two several decrees against him, in favor of the defendant: the one against the plaintiff and his sureties in the first bond, for the…
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