Case ID: tex_38/html/0109-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Walker, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Geo. W. Brown, Adm. of Estate of Thos. Walker, Deceased, v. The Heirs of Thos. Walker.
    An administrator who is himself a creditor of the estate he represents, cannot charge the estate, on payment of his own debt, the five per cent, commission allowed to administrators by law for paying out money to-the creditors.
    Appeal from Grimes. Tried below before the Hon. J. B. Burnett. The facts appear in the opinion of the court.
    
      J. C. Hutcheson, for appellant.
    
      Boone & Goodrich, for appellees.
   Walker, J.

This is an appeal from the order of the District Court, refusing to allow the1 appellant the five per cent, commission allowed to administrators by law for paying out money to creditors. The administrator was a creditor of the estate himself to the amount of about five thousand dollars ; he collected the money necessary to pay this debt, and the court has allowed him five per cent, for collecting, but he has not paid it out to any third person, as the law contemplates. The money is yet in his hands, and he being the creditor of the estate, if the estate is solvent, will be allowed to retain it in discharge of his own debt; but he pays it out to nobody; when it comes into his hands, on certain conditions it is his money, and he is not entitled to a commission for paying money to himself.

The judgment of the District Court is right, and is affirmed.

Affirmed.