Roberts v. Summers

Montgomery, Judge.

The facts of the case necessary to an understanding of the points made and decided are succinctly these: Joseph G. Styles died in 1858 leaving an estate worth some $76,000 00, and thirteen children, by three wives, and the last wife him surviving. G. B. Roberts administered on the estate, and owing to counter-claims set up by the different sets of children, found it necessary to file a bill against the distributees for injunction and direction. Pending the litigation he sold all the property of the estate, mostly or entirely for credit. Several of the distributees bought…