Brown v. Hay
Supreme Court of Alabama
In this case, the plaintiff in error, together with the defendants, applied to the County Court of Montgomery county, for letters of administration on the estate of James Brown. Brown had died intestate, leaving neither widow, or child. Hay & Germany were the husbands of two of the sisters of Brown, and the plaintiff was the father.
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In this case, the plaintiff in error, together with the defendants, applied to the County Court of Montgomery county, for letters of administration on the estate of James Brown. Brown had died intestate, leaving neither widow, or child. Hay & Germany were the husbands of two of the sisters of Brown, and the plaintiff was the father. The County Court granted the administration to the defendants in right of their wives, to the exclusion of the father, who took an appeal to the Circuit Court. The Circuit Court affirmed the decision of the County Court, amt the plaintiff on that affirmation took…
1Opinion of the CourtLipscombe, C. J.
-James- Brown died intestate, leaving no wife or child; but left two sisters,. the wives of the present defendants, and his father Allen Brown, the plaintiff. The Judge of the County Court granted administration to the defendants in right of their wives, in exclusion of the father. The father appealed to the Circuit Court, where the order of appointment, made by the Judge of the County
*105Court, was affirmed, fren -which judgment the case is brought into- ibis Court by a writ of error. The question to be decided is one of construction, arising on the act of the Mississi ppi Territory of 1S06, in…
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