Harper v. Betts

The only question involved on this appeal is whether an administrator and the surety on his bond are liable for funds of the estate deposited -by the administrator in his representative capacity for safekeeping, in a bank which afterwards failed, but of good repute and apparently solvent when the deposit was made, until he could obtain an order of court with reference to the disposition thereof.

This suit originated in the probate court of Craig-head County, by- petition of appellee for an accounting, settlement and discharge of T. J. Harper, the administrator of the estate of Roy Betts,…