Gillespie v. Darwin

This action of debt was commenced on the 4th of February, 1868, against the personal representatives of Jacob L. Wassum, deceased, and of fi. N. Gillespie, deceased, to recover the amount of a lost note, or bond, executed by said Wassum, with R. N. Gillespie as his surety, on the 15th of May, 1855, payable one day after date to Wright Smith, Jr., deceased, and assigned by him to J. W. Gillespie, as guardian. It appears from the evidence of the Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court for Rhea county, that the records of said court, before the war, were burned or destroyed in 1863, and from his…