Gray v. Conyers
Supreme Court of Georgia
Res adjudicatei. Attorney and Client. Administrators, and Executors. Interest. Practice in Supreme Court. New Trial. Before Judge Fain. Bartow Superior Court. July Term, 1882. Conyers, administrator de bonis non of the estate of Felton, ruled Gray, as an attorney, for certain moneys alleged to have been collected by him on notes placed in his hands, by Sumner, a former administrator of Felton’s estate. The rule showed a written demand on Gray.
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Res adjudicatei. Attorney and Client. Administrators, and Executors. Interest. Practice in Supreme Court. New Trial. Before Judge Fain. Bartow Superior Court. July Term, 1882. Conyers, administrator de bonis non of the estate of Felton, ruled Gray, as an attorney, for certain moneys alleged to have been collected by him on notes placed in his hands, by Sumner, a former administrator of Felton’s estate. The rule showed a written demand on Gray. The answer admitted the collection of the money, and claimed that it was paid over to Sumner, except, five per cent claimed as a fee for collecting the…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Ohief Justice.
This was the trial of a rule against the attorney employed by the former administrator upon an estate, brought, by the administrator de bonis non on the same estate, calling upon the attorney to pay over funds in his hands belonging to the estate and collected by the attorney while in the employment of the former administrator.
Under the ruling of the court, applied by the jury to' the facts proved, a verdict was rendered for the plaintiff for the sum collected with twenty per cent damages per annum from the time of demand on the attorney, and refusal to pay said…
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