Dockery v. McDowell
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Probate Court of Wilcox. In the matter of the final settlement of the accounts and vouchers of John E. McDowell, as the administrator of the estate of William W. Eobinson, deceased.
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Appeal from the Probate Court of Wilcox. In the matter of the final settlement of the accounts and vouchers of John E. McDowell, as the administrator of the estate of William W. Eobinson, deceased. Letters of administration on the estate of said decedent were granted to said McDowell, on the 15th July, 1863. A petition by the administrator for the sale of certain personal property belonging to the estate, at the salt-works in Clarke county, for the payment of debts, and an order of sale founded on the petition, are copied into the transcript immediately after the order granting letters of…
1Opinion of the Court
A. J. WALKEE, C. J.-
— Upon the principles settled in the case of Nailson v. Goolc, at the present term, the administrator had authority to receive Confederate treasury-notes. His investment in four-per-cent, bonds, for which he received the certificate entitling him to the bonds, it is contended, should have been reported according to the terms of the 4th section of the act of 9th November, 1861.— Pamphlet Acts, p. 53. If that be admitted, it can not affect the result; for, before the administrator could be charged on account of the investment of Confederate treasury-notes in that way, it…
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