Lester v. Mathews
Supreme Court of Georgia
Administrators and executors. Contracts. Ratification. Fees. Jurisdiction. Before Judge Pottle. Oglethorpe Superior Court. April Term, 1876. Reported in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Judge.
This case was a demurrer to a declaration filed by Mathews against the administrators and heirs-at-law of the estate of Dupree, for fees alleged to be due plaintiff on account of services rendered the estate. The declaration alleged that the plaintiff, in the year 1870, was employed by the children of Dupree, on an issue of devisavit vel non, as counsel for said children against the will, and was further employed by Hunnicutt and Lester, temporary adminstrators, with the consent of the children, as counsel for the estate; that by his contract with them he was to receive a…
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