Esslinger v. Spragins

KNIGHT, Justice.

The plaintiff, as administrator, with the will annexed, of the estate of Virginia K. Hall, deceased, brought the present suit against the defendants, as executors of the last will of Robert E. Spragins, and others, upon a promissory note or bond, executed on August 24th, 1923, by the Farmers Cotton Oil & Fertilizer Company, and payable in the sum of $35,000, on demand, to the order of Virginia K. Hall, at the First National Bank of Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama.

To the complaint as originally filed, consisting of two counts, these appellees filed five pleas, the first being…