Usry v. Williams
Usry v. Williams
Opinion of the Court
S. W. Williams, as administrator of the estate of Mrs. Susan Williams, filed a final return at the February, 1938, term of the court of ordinary of Glascock County, and at the same time filed an application for his discharge as such administrator. A caveat was filed by Virgil, Robert H., Thomas, and Emory Usry, and Mrs. Myrtle Sammons, grandchildren of the deceased, in which it was claimed that the administrator had not filed an inventory and had not recovered possession of the personal property of the estate, which was sold before he was appointed administrator, and that the final return could not take the place of an inventory, and that the application fdr discharge should not be granted until after' the expiration of twelve months from the date of his appointment, so that caveators might have the opportunity to cite him for a'settlément. ' The. ease was appealed to the superior court by agreement in which it was stipulated that the caveats should not be deemed premature as having been, filed before the return date of the citation of the administrator for a discharge, then be
The failure to make and file an inventory of. the property of the estate and to recover and resell the personal property were irregularities on the part of the administrator. But the evidence shows that the personal property was sold by the heirs before the administrator was appointed, that it brought its fair value, and that the administrator charged himself in his final return with the amounts , for which the property was sold. The caveators failed to show that they were injured or damaged by the irregularities just mentioned, but the evidence showed without contradiction that there would have been additional expense incurred in recovering the personal property,- and that in fact it brought more when it was sold than it would have brought after the administrator was appointed. The record shows that the parties agreed that the caveators in one caveat might object to the final return of the administrator and to his application for a. discharge, and that the appeal might be tried at the February, 1938, term of Glascock superior, court .and before the return date of the citation for discharge then' being 'published, which was returnable to the March, 1938, term of the court of ordinary. So the plaintiff in error had the opportunity to make and urge every objection to the final return
Judgment affirmed.
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