Legal Opinion

Giles v. Brown

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided August 15, 1878PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Administrators and executors. Principal and surety. Practice in the Superior Court. Before Judge Bartlett. Houston Superior Court. May Term, 1878. Reported in the opinion.

1Opinion of the Court

Jackson, Judge.

This was a suit brought by the ordinary for the use of McCoy, administrator de bonis non of Daniel Jones, deceased, against EL T. Brown, administrator on the estate of Mrs. Martha A. Jones, and W. R. Brown and Samuel Brown, the securities on his bond as said administrator. The breach of the bond alleged is, that Mrs. Jones having been appointed administratrix of Daniel Jones’ estate, had converted to her own use and mal-administered some thirty-four hundred dollars of that estate, and had died without accounting for the same, and that her administrator, Brown, had also failed…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Knight v. LasseterSupreme Court of Georgia · 1854
  2. Oglesby v. GilmoreSupreme Court of Georgia · 1848
  3. Gilbert v. HardwickSupreme Court of Georgia · 1852
  4. Hardwick v. ThomasSupreme Court of Georgia · 1851
  5. Henderson v. LevySupreme Court of Georgia · 1874

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Bailey v. McAlpinSupreme Court of Georgia · 1905
  2. Austin v. RaifordSupreme Court of Georgia · 1881
  3. Slater v. McAvoyCalifornia Supreme Court · 1899
  4. Waldrop v. NolanSupreme Court of Georgia · 1941
  5. American Surety Co. v. WoodCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1907

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