Gregory v. Harrison
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided in the Court below, by the Hon. Thomas Baltzell, Judge of the Middle Circuit, sitting in and for the County of Gadsden, on the 20th of November, A. D., 1850. The demurrer of defendant to complainant’s bill was sustained, and the bill dismissed, and from this decision, an appeal was taken. The case is fully stated in the opinion delivered by the Court, affirming the opinion of the Court below.
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This case was decided in the Court below, by the Hon. Thomas Baltzell, Judge of the Middle Circuit, sitting in and for the County of Gadsden, on the 20th of November, A. D., 1850. The demurrer of defendant to complainant’s bill was sustained, and the bill dismissed, and from this decision, an appeal was taken. The case is fully stated in the opinion delivered by the Court, affirming the opinion of the Court below. The main, if not the only, question in the case presented for the decision of the Court is, whether an administrator de bonis non is entitled, by virtue of his commission as such,…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, Chief Justice
This case is brought up by appeal from Gadsden Circuit Court.
A bill in equity was there filed by A. E. Gregory, as administrator de bonis non administratis of the estate of James M. Nixon, deceased, the purpose of which bill was to call Robert L. Harrison, former executor of Nixon, but who had been removed or dismissed from his executorship by the Probate Court, upon the complaint of some of the parties in interest, as provided for in our statutes. The bill charges a devastavit, and prays “ that an account be taken, &c., and that what may be found to be due by the said defendant, be decreed…
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