Lumpkin v. Smith

Stayton, Associate Justice.

Wilson Lumpkin was by the will of John Murchison, deceased, appointed the executor of his will, which provided that his estate should be administered without the control of the probate courts.

Lumpkin qualified, and so administered the estate in accordance with the will.

After having had charge of the estate for about thirteen years, on June 20, 1883, the executor filed in the county court for Anderson county what purports to be his final account, in which he stated that the four children of John Murchison made legatees' by his will had died, and that the two minor…