Burnett v. Strong
Mississippi Supreme Court
On appeal from the probate court of Monroe county; Hon. W. A. Tucker, probate judge of Monroe county. A sufficient statement of the facts of this case will be found in the opinion of the court. The statute (Hutch. Code, 660, § 75) requires of every executor, administrator, &oc., to file a complete and perfect inventory of all the personal assets of his decedent.
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On appeal from the probate court of Monroe county; Hon. W. A. Tucker, probate judge of Monroe county. A sufficient statement of the facts of this case will be found in the opinion of the court. The statute (Hutch. Code, 660, § 75) requires of every executor, administrator, &oc., to file a complete and perfect inventory of all the personal assets of his decedent. Without a faithful discharge of this important duty, it is impossible for him to perform his subsequent duties, and a neglect to do so, is a direct fraud on the rights of the heirs, creditors, and distributees. The statute (Hutch.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Handy
This was a bill filed in the probate court of Monroe county, ■ by the widow and heirs of Daniel Burnett, deceased, against the appellees, as executors of Daniel Burnett, alleging that the executors have failed to return in their inventory two hundred and twelve shares of bank stock, and some thirty negroes, with their increase, and have not accounted for the annual proceeds of a plantation on which these negroes were employed, which plantation, negroes, and proceeds, belong to the estate of the testator. The bill prays for an account of this property, and *121that the executors make their final…
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