Hamilton v. Thirston

On the" 30th of December, 1899, the appellee, Calvin B. Thirston, brought suit against the appellants, Wm. H. A. Hamilton and J. Rowland Smith, surviving administrators of John B. Thirston, in the Circuit Court for Washington County to recover damages for the breach, by the appellants intestate, of an alleged oral contract to devise to him a child’s portion of the intestate’s estate.

Subsequently, the plaintiff recovered a judgment for the sum of $3,250, but upon an appeal to this Court this judgment was reversed “ with liberty to the appellee to apply for the remanding of the case, to permit…