Young v. Roach

Citations

• 105 Miss. 6
• 61 So. 984

Syllabus

<p>1. Executohs and Administrators. Necesssity of administration. Collection of insurance. Management of estate. Counsel fees and cost.</p> <p>Where a policy of insurance on the life of a deceased was payable alone to his surviving daughter, there was no necessity for administration on his estate in order to collect the policy.</p> <p>2. Executors and Administrators. Counsel fees and cost.</p> <p>Allowances to an administrator for attorney fees' and court costs are made for the protection of the _ estate being administered, and can only be allowed out of money belonging thereto, and where a policy of insurance upon the life of such policy never became a part of the estate of deceased to be administered there is no principle of law or equity which would justify a court in taking the property to pay counsel fees and court costs incurred by the administrator in attempting to deprive her of it.</p>