Haltiwanger v. Windhorn

Citations

• 44 S.C. 413
• 22 S.E. 446
• 1895 S.C. LEXIS 94

Syllabus

<p>1. Administrator' — Bdsiness op Intestate — Homestead—Estoppel.—An administrator should not undertake to carry on his intestate's livery stable business; but where the administrator promptly submitted the estate to the court for settlement, making the widow a party, and she failed to answer for ten months, and took three horses in part of her chattel exemption under the homestead laws some time after administration granted, the livery stable business being carried on meantime, and the estate thereby exhausted in feed, care, and rent, the widow cannot demand that the administrator shall make up to her the amount of money that the property received by her fell short of §500 — no creditor or distributee, as such, complaining.</p>