Craig v. McGehee
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Orphans’ Court of Dallas County. Tried before the Hon. A. J. Saffold, Judge. 1. The administrators should, under the circumstances, stated in the bill of exceptions, have charged the administra--tors with the value of the slave Mary. The inventory is pri-ma fade evidence to charge them.
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Error to the Orphans’ Court of Dallas County. Tried before the Hon. A. J. Saffold, Judge. 1. The administrators should, under the circumstances, stated in the bill of exceptions, have charged the administra--tors with the value of the slave Mary. The inventory is pri-ma fade evidence to charge them. Steele v. Knox, 10 Ala. '609. The administrators, neither by virtue of their general authority as administrators, nor under the act of 1835, have any right to place their slaves on the plantation and charge the estate with the hire of such slaves. The act referred to,confers on them, no authority…
1Opinion of the CourtChilton, J.
On the 18th September 1835, the defendants in error, applied for, and obtained letters of administration upon the estate of Joseph McGehee, late of Dallas county, deceased. The letters were granted by the Judge of the Orphans’ Court of Dallas county, under the first section of the Act of 1835, authorizing the personal estate of the intestate, to be kept together, and exempt from sale, for ten years, and bond was executed accordingly by said representatives. Dig. 198, § 30.
In December 1835, James H. Armstrong, one of the representatives aforesaid, returned to the Orphan’s Court of Dallas, an…
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