Legal Opinion

Currie v. Bennett

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided March 15, 1916PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal from the chancery court of Harrison county. Hon. J. M. Stevens, Judge. Suit by Annette Currie against J. F. Bennett, administrator. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.

Appellant, who is the widow of B. D. Currie, deceased, filed a hill in the court below seeking to recover from appellee, the administrator of his estate, the sum of one Ihousand, four hundred and twenty-three dollars and fifty cents, alleged to be due her by this estate. Appellee filed an answer and cross-bill denying appellant’s right to recover this money, and praying that she be held to account to him for the sum of nine hundred and fifty dollars found on the body of B. D. Currie after his death, and appropriated by her, and also for certain money alleged to have been received by her and…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Currie v. BennetteMississippi Supreme Court · 1914

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Grenada Bank v. Town of MoorheadMississippi Supreme Court · 1931

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