Gaines v. Stevens

SIMPSON, Justice.

The case is here on appeal from a decree overruling demurrer to the bill as last amended.

One ground of demurrer presented for consideration on this review challenged the bill as multifarious.

The over-all purpose of the bill was to require an accounting and discovery of F. M. Gaines, one of the defendants, to ascertain the amount of money due by him to the estate of the plaintiff’s testator, J. M. Stevens, and to subject the discovered assets to the payment of the debt.

The bill alleges that -Gaines was so indebted by reason of a money-lending business which he had transacted…