Sutton v. Mock

The plaintiff, in his representative capacity, brings this suit against the administrator of the estate of Elizabeth Mock, deceased, requiring him to show cause why certain property, found on the plantation and in the succession of the decedent, should not be placed on the inventory of the estate ; and prays that a more perfect inventory be made of the property of the succession ; complains that the administrator has sold seventeen bales of cotton, the property of the estate, and converted the proceeds to his own use; that he is about to sell thirty bales more of the cotton of the estate in…