Bethea v. Dixon

(After stating the foregoing facts.) To the petition of the county administrator seeking permanent letters of administration on the estate of Summerfield Tucker Dixon, on the grounds that he left an estate worth about $2000 and that his estate was not represented and was not likely to be represented, his heirs at law filed a caveat, one ground of which was that “All of the legal existing debts of S. T. Dixon have been paid by his heirs at law. The heirs at law prefer to settle the estate of S. T. Dixon, if any, without administration.” On the trial it was contended by the caveators that the…