Landreth's Adm'r v. Landreth's Distributees
Supreme Court of Alabama
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Cherokee. The plaintiff in error, who was appointed by the Orphans’ Court of Cherokee, administrator of the estate of Thomas Landreth, deceased, voluntarily presented his administration accounts to that court for settlement.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Cherokee. The plaintiff in error, who was appointed by the Orphans’ Court of Cherokee, administrator of the estate of Thomas Landreth, deceased, voluntarily presented his administration accounts to that court for settlement. The account was accordingly stated and reported for allowance, the extent of the administrator’s indebtedness to the esjate ascertained, the share of each distributee adjusted, and a several decree rendered in favor of each, for what lie or she was entitled to ; for which executions were directed to issue. In the account exhibited,…
1Opinion of the CourtCollier, C. J.
In the transcript filed in this cause, there is an order of the Orphans’ Court of Cherokee, purporting to have been made on the 7th December, 1840, by which John Lowry was appointed the guardian of the children of the intestate, who were under the age of fourteen years. *432There is also a bond, bearing date, in the usual form of that executed by guardians, signed and sealed with the names and seals of Lowry and several others, as his sureties. By what warrant this order and bond are sent here, as a part of the record, does not appear, and we cannot regard them as regularly before us. The decree…
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