61 Ga. 410 | Ga. | 1878
“ It shall be the duty of the appraisers to make a schedule of the property set apart by them, and return the same, under their hands and seals, to the ordinary, within three months from the date of their action, to which return objections may be filed by any person interested, at any time within six months after the filing of the same in office, and if no objections are made, or, if made, are disallowed, the ordinary shall record the return so made in a book to be kept for this purpose j if an appeal be taken, pending the appeal the family shall be furnished with necessaries by the representative of the estate.”
It could not have been intended that a widow should not receive as much as one hundred dollars of her husband’s estate, whether there were objections or not, for if the estate is worth that sum or more, it is the minimum, of her allowance — the very least that can be assigned to her. To compel her to wait six months to see whether some mere formal objection is not presented, would be the extreme of legal ceremoniousness. There is no danger that Mr. Doyle will ever have to answer to Mr. Martin’s administrator for this account, so far as the record before us discloses. If the special facts, for any reason, made a case of danger, he ought to have presented them by plea, and supported the plea by evidence.
Judgment affirmed.