Rose v. Ratliff's Administrator

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees

Reversing.

Alexander Ratliff died intestate in October, 1911. He left surviving Mm, as Ms only distributees and heirs at law, his widow, Ella Ratliff, and four infant children. Ella Ratliff afterwards remarried and died in 1926. On October 18,1911, Marion Sanders, father-in-law of Alexander Ratliff, qualified as the administrator of his son-in-law’s estate, and M. C. Justice, W. P. Childers, Andy •Sanders, Stephen Osborn, and appellee J. E. Childers became sureties on his bond.

On May 24,1928, the four children of Alexander Ratliff brought an action in the Pike…