Section 19-3-34
Objections to claims - Conduct of hearing; order allowing or disallowing claim.
On the day appointed for the hearing, or any day to which the same may be continued, the register or clerk must proceed to hear and note the testimony for and against the contested claim, the verified claim or statement thereof being prima facie evidence of its correctness, and must make an order allowing or disallowing the claim, in whole or in part, according to the evidence.
(Code 1896, §4166; Code 1907, §6068; Code 1923, §10405; Code 1940, T. 58, §22.)