Legal Opinion

Bennett v. McCrocklin

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided January 14, 1860PublishedCited by 2 opinions

CASE 30 — PETITION ORDINARY — APPEAL FROM SPENCER CIRCUIT COURT. cited Rev. Statutes, (Stanton's.) 506, sec. 24; lb., 2 val., art. 11, sections 1 to 8 inclusive. cited Civil Code, section 125, sub-div. 4; lb., sec. 29.

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Stites

delivered the opinion or the court.:

Bennett sued McCrocklin in the Spencer circuit court, upon two notes executed by the latter to Bennett in his own right.

*323McCrocklin answered, saying that Bennett was the executor of Isaac Bennett, deceased — the father of Adeline McCrocklin-, who was the wife of the defendant — and, as executor, had had a settlement with the county judge of Nelson county, in which he fell in debt to the defendant and his wife in the sum of $615 25, which was due and unpaid, and which he prayed might be set-off against the plaintiff’s demand. It is also averred, in the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Coleman v. Coleman's executorsCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1813

3Cited by2 opinions

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