Case Name: Smith v. Smith. In re Estate of Smith
Court: Colorado Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Colorado
Decision Date: 1927-05-02
Citations: 81 Colo. 411
Docket Number: No. 11,811
Parties: Smith v. Smith. In re Estate of Smith.
Judges: 
Reporter: Colorado Reports
Volume: 81
Pages: 411–412

Head Matter:
No. 11,811.
Smith v. Smith. In re Estate of Smith.
Decided May 2, 1927.
Mr. John- Hipp, for plaintiff in error.
Mr. James H. Brown, for defendant in error.
Department One.

Opinion:
Mr. Justice Whitford
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a writ of error to review a judgment of the district court removing plaintiff in error as administrator of the estate of Mary Ann Smith. This is a controversy between father and son. These shameless litigants, in their interminable controversies with each other, were here in Smith v. Smith, 76 Colo. 119, 230 Pac. 597.
This petition of the son asks for the removal of his father as administrator of his mother's estate. The county court granted the order of removal. The matter was appealed to the district court, where it was again heard de novo, and the action of the probate court sustained.
Our Court of Appeals held, in Shore v. Wall, 22 Colo. App. 146, 122 Pac. 1124, that the removal of an administrator was a matter resting in the discretion of the county court, and in the absence of abuse, its discretion should not be interfered with by a court of review.
It is manifest from the bill of exceptions that the record does not contain all of the evidence before the district court, and therefore we cannot review the judgment upon the assignment of error that the judgment is contrary to the evidence. The records in the numerous suits, covering years of litigation between father and son, in evidence before the lower court, were not brought up. In this imperfect state of the record we are compelled.to presume the judgment to be correct.
Judgment affirmed.
Mr. Chief Justice Burke, Mr. Justice Denison and Mr. Justice Sheaeor concur.