Powell v. Powell
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Lowndes Chancery Court. Heard before the Hon. John A. Foster This was a bill filed by Claudius W. Powell, Jr., against George N. Powell, the administrator of the estate of orator’s father, Claudius W. Powell, Sr., and the sureties on the administrator’s bond, and was commenced on March 20th, 1883. The bill charges that a large amount of personal property and dioses in action of the estate had passed into the hands of the defendant, Powell, for which he had not…
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Appeal from Lowndes Chancery Court. Heard before the Hon. John A. Foster This was a bill filed by Claudius W. Powell, Jr., against George N. Powell, the administrator of the estate of orator’s father, Claudius W. Powell, Sr., and the sureties on the administrator’s bond, and was commenced on March 20th, 1883. The bill charges that a large amount of personal property and dioses in action of the estate had passed into the hands of the defendant, Powell, for which he had not properly accounted, and that he had purchased the lands of the estate, sold under the order of the Probate Court, and had…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
Claudius W. Powell, Jr., is the only child and heir at law of Claudius W. Powell, Sr., deceased, and George N. Powell became the administrator of the latter’s estate. The present bill was filed by the heir and distributee, to bring the administrator to a settlement. Before the death of Claudius W., he purchased from Coster & Coxe a tract of land, and died owing the purchase-money. Under a bill filed for the purpose against the heir and administrator, Coster & Coxe obtained a decree, ascertaining the sum of the unpaid purchase-money to be thirty-one hundred and fifty-eight dollars, and…
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