Wilson v. Crook
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Chancery Court of Benton. Tried before the Hon. W. W. Mason. This was a bill filed by the plaintiffs against thé defendants in error as administrators of Sam’l F. Clawson, dec’d, for a discovery of assets, &c.
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Error to the Chancery Court of Benton. Tried before the Hon. W. W. Mason. This was a bill filed by the plaintiffs against thé defendants in error as administrators of Sam’l F. Clawson, dec’d, for a discovery of assets, &c. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. 1. The bill alleges that a portion of assets came to the hands of the administrator and administratrix, which they failed tq.return’ in their inventory, and that, they have collected, monies. belonging to said estate, for which they have not accounted to the Orphans’ Court, and that they (the complainants) can…
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, J.
The si'sters and brother of Samuel' F. Clawson, deceased, and the husbands of the sisters, are the complainants. The bill was filed in 1843, more than eighteen months after the grant of administration. The administration was granted by the Orphans’ Court of Benton county, on the 4th day of December 1840, to the defendants, John M. Crook and Harriet Clawson, then the widow of the intestate, and now the wife of the defendant, Hiram Mitchell. It appears that the complainants, who are the sisters and brother of the intestate, are his heirs at law and distributees, he having died without will or…
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