Adriance v. Crews

Gould, Associate Justice.

-This suit was brought to establish a rejected claim against the estate of C. R. Patton, deceased. The petition alleged that, during the years 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, and 1865, Adriance, the administrator of said estate, under "the orders of the County Court, carried on a plantation belonging thereto; that in so doing it was necessary for lfim to employ an overseer; that he accordingly contracted with plaintiff Crews, from year to year during said five years, for the sum of eight hundred dollars (gold) per annum; that under said contract plaintiff served the estate as…