Baker's Administrator v. Wood
Baker's Administrator v. Wood
Opinion of the Court
The sums advanced or loaned by William L. Baker, out of his own private funds, to the wards of his father, Robert A. Baker, after the father’s death, could not have a greater effect than to create a liability to repay it, on
Besides, the appellant’s claims against the waids, unless they are admitted by the guardian acting for them in the settlement, should be established, before the wards’ estate can thus be appropriated for their payment. This the probate court of Mobile has no power to do. There was, then, no error in the action of the court below in refusing the appellant’s motion to permit him to retain the several distributive shares of the wards in the estate of Robert A. Baker, deceased, to pay himself. To do this, he must show that he is the owner of the several shares of each ward. 2 Story’s Eq. § 1047; NcNeill's Adm'r v. NcNeill's Creditors, 36 Ala. 109, and cases there cited. The decree of August the 8th, 1867, is not final. It does not direct the payment of the distributive shares of the wards, as then ascertained, to the administrator de bonis non, or to William L. Baker personally. This question seems to have been purposely left open. The wards were not in court to hear it, and the decree would not bind them, unless they were. The court had no jurisdiction over questions involving the individual claims of the administrator de bonis non, unless he stood in court as the assignee of the wards; which he does not show himself to be. His remedy is not in the probate court.
The judgment of the court below is affirmed, with costs.
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