Hillebrant v. Burton

This suit was brought by the defendants in error, to set aside a claim against the estate of I. W. Bur*139ton, dec’d., that had been presented to the administrator, admitted by him, and approved by the Probate Judge. The claim was on an open account, and was presented to the administrator duly proven, on the 3rd day of February, 1844.— The paper on which the account was set out, contained immediately preceding the statement of the account, an acknowledgement in the handwriting of the deceased and signed by him, that Hillebrant was jointly interested with the deceased, in certain lands described…