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46 Ala. 598

Adkinson v. Wright

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided June 15, 1871

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1871-06-15

, Tried before Hon. J. McCaleb Wiley. The appellants were sued by the appellee, as administrator of Wiley Daniel, on a promissory note made by them payable to him in his representative capacity. They defended on the ground that the note was given in payment for forty bushels of corn and a wagon, purchased at a sale had under an order of sale made by the probate court on the verbal application of the administrator.

Decided 1871-06-15

B. F. SAFFOLD, J.

¶1An application for the sale of any property of an estate, even that of a perishable character, ought, for the sake of order and precision, to be made in writing, and be verified by affidavit. But the statute— Rev. Code, § 2068 — does not seem to require it expressly in the case of property liable to waste, or of a perishable nature.

¶2The record of the proceedings in the probate court recites that the administrator made verbal application for an order to sell specified articles, on the ground that they were perishable and wasting; and that the court was satisfied by proof that the property was of the character alleged, and that the sale would be beneficial to the estate. It also recites that the petition was ordered to be recorded. This was a sufficient compliance with the law in this case.

¶3The judgment was affirmed.

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