Harris v. Seals
Supreme Court of Georgia
Petition from Warren. Tried before Judge Thomas, at October Term, 1859. The facts of this case and the points adjudicated will be sufficiently understood, from the following opinion oí the Court, together with the head note made out by the Judge delivering said opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
— Running J.
By the Court.
delivering the opinion.
The charge of the Court below, amounts as we think, to this; that if the administrator, Henry P. Harris, had made no returns of any sort, he ought to be removed from the administration, although it might be true, that at the time when he Avas appointed administrator, there Avere no debts against his intestate Nathan Harris, and the Avhole estate of the said Nathan, had been divided out, by his heirs among themselves, in the proportions prescribed by the statute of distributions.
If the heirs divided out the estate in this manner, they in doing…
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