Lee v. Wood
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Pike. Tried before tbe Hon. John P. Hubbabd. This action was brought by Mrs. Ida Lee, a married woman, suing by next friend as an infant, against W. C. Wood, the probate judge of the county, and the sureties on his official bond; and was commenced on the 4th March, 1887. The official bond on which the suit was founded, and which was set out in the complaint, was dated the 20th July, 1868, and was conditioned as required by the statute.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Pike. Tried before tbe Hon. John P. Hubbabd. This action was brought by Mrs. Ida Lee, a married woman, suing by next friend as an infant, against W. C. Wood, the probate judge of the county, and the sureties on his official bond; and was commenced on the 4th March, 1887. The official bond on which the suit was founded, and which was set out in the complaint, was dated the 20th July, 1868, and was conditioned as required by the statute. The breach assigned was the official act of said probate judge in accepting and approving the bond of O. N. Carpenter, as…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
Willis C. Wood was qualified as judge of probate of Pike county July 20, 1868, the other defendants being sureties on his bond as such judge. On October 13, 1870, he appointed C. N. Carpenter administrator of the estate of W. A. Carpenter, deceased, and approved his bond as such. Ida Lee, nee Carpenter, is the child and distributee of W. A. Carpenter, entitled to share in his estate. When this suit was brought she was still a minor, though married. B. A. Hill became guardian of Ida Carpenter, and afterwards in March, 1875, C. N. Carpenter came to a settlement of his administration, and a…
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