Opinion ID: 1679892
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Heading: Appellant's $750.00 Bond Obligation.

Text: Appellant alleges that the question of the payment vel non of his $750.00 debt owed to his mother was determined by the probate court's estate settlement decree, thereby rendering improper a consideration of this issue by the circuit court. We cannot agree. Such assertion is contrary to Appellant's own testimony at the trial. When the administration of the estate was concluded, the only question remaining to be resolved was that of who had title to the lot in question. Such fact was expressly acknowledged by Appellant during the trial. As title to the real property was not an issue before the probate court, the judgment of that court was not conclusive as to Appellant's agreement with his mother respecting the $750.00 obligation and his remaining interest in the property. Pitts v. Howard, 208 Ala. 380, 94 So. 495 (1922).