Otis v. Dargan
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Chancery Court of Mobile. Heard before Hon. Adam C. Feldeb. Appellants filed this bill on the 6th day. of February, 1872, for the purpose of opening and correcting a final settlement made by appellee Dargan, as executor of R. A. Heirn, deceased, in the probate court of Mobile on the 16th of March, 1870. The original and amended bills show that on the 29th April, 1867, Roger A. Heirn died in the city of Mobile, possessed of a large estate, real and personal, which…
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Appeal from Chancery Court of Mobile. Heard before Hon. Adam C. Feldeb. Appellants filed this bill on the 6th day. of February, 1872, for the purpose of opening and correcting a final settlement made by appellee Dargan, as executor of R. A. Heirn, deceased, in the probate court of Mobile on the 16th of March, 1870. The original and amended bills show that on the 29th April, 1867, Roger A. Heirn died in the city of Mobile, possessed of a large estate, real and personal, which he devised by his last will and testament. After a special legacy of certain net rents, and the payment of all debts…
1Opinion of the CourtBrickell, C. J.
A court of equity has original jurisdiction to enforce the trusts of an administration — to compel the appropriation of the assets to the payment of debts, and when these are extinguished, to the satisfaction of legacies ; or in cases of intestacy, to apply them according to the statute of distributions. Of this jurisdiction it is not divested by the statutes conferring on courts of probate, cognizance of the settlement of the accounts of executors and administrators — of the payment of legacies, making distributions, and power to render final decrees, adjudicating and determ*183ining the rights…
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