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36 Ala. 185

Roundtree v. Snodgrass

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided January 15, 1860

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1860-01-15

Tried before the Hon. John Gill Shorter. The record in this case shows the following facts: On the 29th May, 1857, the probate court of Jackson granted special letters bf administration on the estate of Mary Bird, deceased, to John Snodgrass, and afterwards granted letters of administi’ation in chief to C. B. Roundtree and S. P. Kirby.

Relies on Doe ex dem. School Commissioners v. Godwin

Decided 1860-01-15

A. J. WALKER, C. J.

¶1Section 1813 of the Code relieves an administrator from the presumption of a liability for interest, upon his making a prescribed affidavit, but authorizes a contestation of the affidavit. If it be conceded that the prescribed affidavit, which is copied into the transcript, is a part of the record, the decree of the probate court, in reference to the charge of interest, must nevertheless, in a revising tribunal, be deemed correct. The record gives us no information, by bill of exceptions or otherwise, as to the evidence before the probate court; and we must intend that there was evidence successfully controverting the affidavit, and that the court decided correctly, rather than that the affidavit was uncontested, and that the court erred. — Doe ex dem. School Com’rs v. Godwin, 30 Ala. 242; Fleming v. Ussery, ib. 282; Lovett v. Chisolm, ib. 88; Shepherd’s Digest, 572.

¶2The judgment of the circuit court is reversed, and the cause remanded to that court.

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