Brownlee v. Hare

At the April term, 1876, of the court below, the appellant, the administrator of the estate of David W. St. Clair, deceased, submitted to the court his final settlement report, duly verified, of said estate.

In this report, the appellant showed to the court, in substance, that the means that came into the,hands of said administrator, and the only means that belonged to said decedent’s estate, were, in the first place, a claim in favor of said decedent against one Silas Braffit, who was the decedent’s guardian, which claim the administrator undertook to collect-at the instance of the officers…