Coopwood v. Wallace
Supreme Court of Alabama
Writ of Error to the Chancery Court of the 30th District, Northern Division. The defendant in error filed his bill against James M. Coopwood, Bennett Driver, and Samuel (Henderson, the material allegations of which are, that Coopwood, and Driver, in the year 1836, were appointed administrators of the estate of John Reynolds, by the orphans’ court of Lawrence county.
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Writ of Error to the Chancery Court of the 30th District, Northern Division. The defendant in error filed his bill against James M. Coopwood, Bennett Driver, and Samuel (Henderson, the material allegations of which are, that Coopwood, and Driver, in the year 1836, were appointed administrators of the estate of John Reynolds, by the orphans’ court of Lawrence county. That it became necessary to employ counsel to bring suits, to recover the property belonging to said estate, and that complainant was employed by them to bring these suits for the recovery of some slaves. . Also, that complainant…
1Opinion of the CourtDargan, J.
The first question to be determined is, does the evidence show, that there is due the complainant any debt ? He was employed to bring three suits, by Coop-wood and-Driver, an administrator of Reynolds in 1838 — ~ one writ has never been executed; two were ; he prepared the two causes for trial, attended to the taking of the depositions of witnesses, in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama: that is, he prepared all the papers necessary to their examination. The suits were much litigated; two other counsel were employed, Mr. Hopkins, at the suggestion of the complainant, and Mr. Cooper, by the…
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