Hecht v. Skaggs
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Randolph Circuit Court in Chancery. J. W. Butler, Judge. Levi Hecht sued Serena Skaggs to compel her, as devisee •of her father, James Russell deceased, to make contribution as between co-sureties.
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APPEAL from Randolph Circuit Court in Chancery. J. W. Butler, Judge. Levi Hecht sued Serena Skaggs to compel her, as devisee •of her father, James Russell deceased, to make contribution as between co-sureties. The complaint alleged that J. P. Black, James Russell and appellant in 1871 became sureties on the bond of T. J. Ratcliffe, administrator of the estate of W. H. Ratcliffe, deceased, in the sum of $12,000; that Russell died in 1876 leaving property worth $5,000 to defendant as his sole devisee; that Ratcliffe, the administrator, died in 1881 ; that subsequently judgment for the sum of…
1Opinion of the CourtHemingway, J.
The statute requires every person, to-whom letters of administration have been granted, to execute a bond with two or more sufficient sureties to be approved by the clerk; the general tenor of the condition is that the administrator shall well and truly administer according to law all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits of the deceased, which come to the hands, possession or knowledge of the administrator, and shall well and truly do and perform all matters and things touching the administration that are or may be prescribed by law, or enjoined on the administrator by the…
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