Gwin v. McCarroll
Mississippi Supreme Court
In error from the circuit court of Madison county. The action was debt, founded on two bills, single, for $6750 each, executed on the 28th day of December, A. D. 1836, by the defendants in the court below, William M. Gwin, William M. Winbourn, John H. Walker and Mitchell Calhoon, payable to the defendant in error, (-by the description of administrator of the estate of Z. W. Banfield, deceased,) the first, due twelve, and the second, twenty-four months aftér date.
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In error from the circuit court of Madison county. The action was debt, founded on two bills, single, for $6750 each, executed on the 28th day of December, A. D. 1836, by the defendants in the court below, William M. Gwin, William M. Winbourn, John H. Walker and Mitchell Calhoon, payable to the defendant in error, (-by the description of administrator of the estate of Z. W. Banfield, deceased,) the first, due twelve, and the second, twenty-four months aftér date. The defendants pleaded, 1. “That MoCarroll, purporting to act as the administrator or Z. W. Banfield, deceased, and to have…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clayton
This cause turns entirely upon the pleadings, which are unusually prolix and intricate, so much so, that it is a matter of no little difficulty, to extract the points intended to be submitted for consideration. The action is debt, founded upon two bills single, for the aggregate amount of $13,500. The defence intended to be set up, was that these bills single, had been given as the price of a tract of land sold by the plaintiff in the court below as administrator of Banfield, by virtue of an order of the probate court of Madison county, but that the sale was in fact made without authority,…
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