Fricks v. Lewis

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mr. Justice McIver.

Prior Alexander, sr., died intestate in 1870, and his son, E. B. Alexander, administered on his estate. On October 30, 1871, after advertising for one month in the county newspaper notice of his intention to apply on that day to the judge of probate for a final settlement and discharge, he obtained an order to pay out the balance in his hands to three of the distributees, not including these plaintiffs, on the ground that the other distributees had received advancements from the intestate to the full amount of their shares, and that…