Grayson v. Wilkinson
Mississippi Supreme Court
On appeal, from the circuit court of Yazoo county. Edward C. Wilkinson, the appellee, on the 10th March, 1841, commenced his action of assumpsit, in the circuit court of Yazoo county, against Sarah R. Grayson, the appellant, as administratrix of Spence M. Grayson, deceased, who was in his lifetime an attorney of the circuit court of the United States, in and fo$ the Ninth Circuit, and District of Mississippi, to receiver the amount of a judgment, before that recovered by…
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On appeal, from the circuit court of Yazoo county. Edward C. Wilkinson, the appellee, on the 10th March, 1841, commenced his action of assumpsit, in the circuit court of Yazoo county, against Sarah R. Grayson, the appellant, as administratrix of Spence M. Grayson, deceased, who was in his lifetime an attorney of the circuit court of the United States, in and fo$ the Ninth Circuit, and District of Mississippi, to receiver the amount of a judgment, before that recovered by Whiting & Slack, of New Orleans, against said Wilkinson, survivor of John Willison, who together were partners in the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Shamcey
The plaintiff in error was sued, as the administratrix of Spence M. Grayson, who was an attorney at law, to recover damages for the negligence of said attorney, in failing to defend a suit brought by Whiting & Slack against Wilkinson & Willi-son, in the district court of the United States for the district of Mississippi.
*286During the progress of the cause, the defendant took exceptions to certain testimony, and to the charges given by the court at the request of the plaintiff, and also to the refusal of the court to give certain instructions, asked by the defendant’s counsel.
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