Supreme Court of Alabama June 15, 1842 (Taylor v. Reese)

ORMOND, J.

In the case of Teat v. Lee, [8 Porter, 507,) this Court held that Commissioners appointed by the Orphans’ Court to make division of property, had no power to ascertain the value of property brought into hotch pot, but that the value must be ascertained by the Judge of the County Court himself, or by a jury empannelled by him for that purpose.