Sargent v. Hayne

Tried before ■ his Honor Judge Earle, Charleston, May Term, 1835. , This was an action on the case, brought on the following section of the Executor’s Law : “ Executors and administrators shall annually, while the estate shall remain in their care or custody, at the first court to be held after the first day of January, render to the Ordinary, &c., a just and true account, on oath, of the receipts and expenditures of such estate, the preceding year : which, when examined and…