Case Name: Harrell v. Warren
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1898-04-01
Citations: 105 Ga. 476
Docket Number: 
Parties: Harrell v. Warren.
Judges: All concurring, except Cobb, J., absent.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 105
Pages: 476–477

Head Matter:
Harrell v. Warren.

Opinion:
Fish, J.
1. Section 3493 of the Civil Code, which confers upon any person interested in an estate as distributee or legatee the right to cite the legal representative thereof to a settlement of his accounts, and upon the latter a corresponding right to cite all the distributees to appear before the ordinary in order that such a settlement may be made, evidently contemplates that the proceeding which it authorizes at the instance of the former shall be an entirely distinct one from that which the latter may institute.
2. When, therefore, a legatee under a will cites an administrator de bonis non cum testamento annexo to a settlement, the defendant is not, as a matter of right, entitled to have another, who is the sole remaining legatee, made a party to the proceeding. Such other legatee would be a proper, but is not an essential, party.
Submitted January 18,
Decided April 1, 1898.
Certiorari. Before Judge Gamble. Jefferson superior court. May term, 1897.
Gain & Polhill and R. V. Hardeman, for plaintiff in error.
3. The ordinary did not err in refusing to grant the defendant's motion to have an additional party made; and consequently there was no error in overruling the certiorari.
Judgment affirmed.
All concurring, except Cobb, J., absent.