Allen v. Miles
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Court of Probates of Yazoo county. Hon. R. B. Mayes, judge. The estate of Henry Allen, Jr., was declared insolvent, and the commissioner of insolvency reported, among other claims allowed by him against the estate, a claim in favor of Mrs. Margaret A. Allen, amounting to $6717 96, credited by $900 for her personal expenses.
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Appeal from the Court of Probates of Yazoo county. Hon. R. B. Mayes, judge. The estate of Henry Allen, Jr., was declared insolvent, and the commissioner of insolvency reported, among other claims allowed by him against the estate, a claim in favor of Mrs. Margaret A. Allen, amounting to $6717 96, credited by $900 for her personal expenses. On the coming in of this report, Miles, Adams & Co. and several other creditors of the decedent, whose claims had also been allowed, excepted to it, on the ground of the allowance of the account in favor of Mrs. Allen. The exceptions were overruled by the…
1Opinion of the CourtHarris, J.
This cause comes before us on appeal and cross-appeal from the decision of the Court of Probates, on the report of the commissioner of insolvency on the estate of Henry Allen, deceased. Mrs. Allen filed her account against the estate of Henry Allen, Jr., deceased, her late husband, for money of her separate estate, received by him for the use of negroes on his plantation, for proceeds of the sale of cotton, and for an amount paid and advanced by her after Allen’s death, on execution in the sheriff’s hands, which was about to be levied on the property of the estate. The commissioner reported…
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