Taylor v. Means
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Greene Chancery Court.’ Heard before lion. Thomas Cobbs. This cause was before this court at a former term, when the decree of the chancery court was reversed and the cause remanded.
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Appeal from Greene Chancery Court.’ Heard before lion. Thomas Cobbs. This cause was before this court at a former term, when the decree of the chancery court was reversed and the cause remanded. See Means v. Ricks, 65 Ala. 241. The bill was filed on 24th January, 1876, by Thomas Eatman, as administrator de bonis nonoi'tiie estate of Tillman Hicks, against Charles M. B. Means, Isabella J. Pyles, and Newton C. Pyles, her husband ; and its material averments and prayer may be summarized as follows: In 1859, complainant’s intestate and William S. Means became the sureties of B. T. Higginbotham,…
1Opinion of the CourtBrickell, C. J.
— The only change of evidence in this cause, since it was before this court at a former term (Means v. Hicks, 65 Ala. 241), is thé introduction of the inventory of the personal property, and accounts of sales, filed in the court of probate by Higginbotham, with the record of a partial or annual settlement of' his administration. It is the duty of an executor or administrator to make and file in the court of probate an inventory of the personal property coming to his hands for administration; and he is prima facie chargeable with the estimated value of the property embraced in it. — Steele v.…
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