United States v. Williams

WALLER, Circuit Judge.

The United States brought suit for the value of timber cut from a tract of land in Jones County, Georgia, which it had bid in at a judicial sale by F. M. Stewarr, Jr., who purported to act as administrator de bonis non of the estate of John Bland. The lands from which the timber was cut by the defendant, Williams, were formerly part of a larger tract owned by John Bland, who died intestate in 1901, a resident of Jones County, Georgia. His widow, Sarah Bland, was appointed administratrix of his estate by the Court of Ordinary of Jones County on June 10, 1901. Thereafter…