47 So. 233 | Ala. | 1908
— The bill in this case was filed by Julian Greer (since deceased, and now represented by the appellant), and sought to have the chancery court take “jurisdiction of the administration of the estate of James Vaughn, deceased, and that the administration of said estate” be removed from the probate court into the chancery court. The respondent filed pleas (set out
The gravamen of the argument is that the administration of the principal administrator and that of the administrator de bonis non are separate and distinct, that there is no technical privity betAveen them, and that a judgment against the administrator in chief is not conclusive against the administrator de bonis non. The bill in the former case shows that F. A. Vaughan was the executor of the estate of James Vaughn, that said F. A. Vaughn had died without making settlement of said estate, that V. Cooper Vaughn had been appointed as administratrix of said F. A. Vaughn, and she died and was succeeded by Wynn as administrator de bonis non, and he had made no settlement. The heirs and dis'tribtees of James Vaughn were made parties, ánd it Aims alleged that there was nothing further to do in regard
It will be observed that the former bill was not merely to make a settlement of said F. A. Vaughn’s administration, but to remove the estate of James Vaughn into the chancery court, and to make a full and final settlement and distribution of said estate. We hold, then, that the subject-matter of the former suit was the same as that of this suit; that both suits related to the removal of the estate of James Vaughn and the settlement of the same, and that the parties are identical; and that the administrator de bonis non, being bound by all matters legally done in the regular administration of said estate, cannot split up the administration of said estate and thus bring about a “complicity of litigation” in the administration of said estate. The chancellor properly overruled the exceptions to the pleas in said case.
The decree of the chancellor is affirmed.