62 P. 488 | Or. | 1900
delivered the opinion.
On December 10, 1895, Thomas Coats died in Douglas County, and his son, the appellant, was appointed administrator of his estate. At the time of his death he was seised and possessed of real and personal property, which was inventoried by the administrator and appraised at $814.88,' and was indebted about $2,400, including the sum of $954, and some interest, due petitioner’s intestate on a promissory note of date January 4, 1892. In Janu
The statute (Hill’s Ann. Laws, § 1112), requires an executor or administrator, within a month from the time of his appointment, or such further time as the court or judge may allow, to make and file an inventory, verified by his own oath, of all .the real and personal property of deceased which shall come to his possession or knowledge, and for a willful failure in this respect he may be removed: In re Holladay’s Estate, 18 Or. 168 (22 Pac. 750). In making such inventory, it is his duty to include property which he knows to have been fraudulently conveyed by his intestate: 2 Woerner, Law Adm. (2 ed.) *666; Minor v. Mead, 3 Conn. 289; Andruss v. Doolittle, 11
Affirmed.