Malone v. Malone
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Probate Court, of DeKalb. Heard before the Hon. W. C. D. Cook. The appeal in this case was prosecuted by the appellants as administrators, from a decree of the probate court refusing to allow certain claims in their final settlement of the estate of George W. Malone, deceased, against the distributive share of Wallace C. Malone.
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Appeal from the Probate Court, of DeKalb. Heard before the Hon. W. C. D. Cook. The appeal in this case was prosecuted by the appellants as administrators, from a decree of the probate court refusing to allow certain claims in their final settlement of the estate of George W. Malone, deceased, against the distributive share of Wallace C. Malone. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion. — 1. On final settlement of an administration, the administrator is entitled to a credit against the distributive share of a distributee for the reasonable value of board and clothes…
1Opinion of the CourtBrickell, C. J.
— This was the final settlement of the administration of the estate of George W. Malone, deceased, had in the court of probate at the instance of his administratrix and administrator. The administratrix and administrator proposed to charge the distributive share of Wallace C. Malone, a deceased distributee, with the value of a horse claimed to have been an advancement to him by the intestate. They also proposed to charge him with the feeding of the horse, and with board and clothing furnished him during his minority by his mother, the administratrix. The court of probate refused these…
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