Pinckard's Distributees v. Pinckard's Administrators
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error, to tbe Court of Probate of Chambers. On the final settlement of the defendants’ administration on the estate of Peyton Pinckard, deceased, the distributees objected to the allowance of several items in their accounts and vouchers ; and their objections having been overruled, they excepted to the several rulings of the court against them, and now assign for error: “ 1. The matters set forth in the bill of exceptions, as specified in the following items: 1st, in…
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Error, to tbe Court of Probate of Chambers. On the final settlement of the defendants’ administration on the estate of Peyton Pinckard, deceased, the distributees objected to the allowance of several items in their accounts and vouchers ; and their objections having been overruled, they excepted to the several rulings of the court against them, and now assign for error: “ 1. The matters set forth in the bill of exceptions, as specified in the following items: 1st, in refusing to charge the administrators with the hire of negroes unaccounted for, to-wit: Lambert, Randall, woman Amy, girl Amy,…
1Opinion of the CourtPhelan, J.
The correctness of several of the items in the accounts of the administrators, allowed them on final settlement, (see the statement of the case,) will depend upon the construction to be placed on the statute. — Clay’s Dig., p. 196, § 19. That statute is in these words :
u If any person shall die after the first day of January, the servants and slaves of which he was possessed, &c., and which were employed in making a crop, shall be continued on the plantation in the occupation of the decedent at the time of his death, until the last day of December following, and then delivered to those who…
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