Leslie v. Tucker
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Probate Court of Monroe. In the matter of the petition of J. W. Leslie, administrator, &c., the following proceedings were had. Said administrator, upon demurrer sustained to the original, filed the following amended petition: “ State of Alabama, Monroe county.
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Appeal from the Probate Court of Monroe. In the matter of the petition of J. W. Leslie, administrator, &c., the following proceedings were had. Said administrator, upon demurrer sustained to the original, filed the following amended petition: “ State of Alabama, Monroe county. To the Hon. W. C. Lowell, Judge of the Probate Court of said county : Your petitioner, John W. Leslie, who is the administrator de bonis non of the estate of Mary J. Henderson, deceased, late of said county, represents unto your honor that letters of administration on the estate of said Mary Henderson were granted by…
1Opinion of the CourtManning, J.
The facts set forth in the amended petition in this cause, show a case which imposes on the judge of probate the duty of designating three disinterested persons to make selection of the personal property that was of the late Willis Henderson at the time of his death, that should be exempt for the benefit of the widow who survived-him. This is required by section 13 of the act “to regulate property exempted from sale for the payment of debts,” approved April 23, 1873. There being no minor child of' the deceased, the rights of the widow were, when she died, devolved on the administrator of her…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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