Coates v. Mackey

Grason, J.,

delivered the opinion.of the Court.

These are cross-appeals — the first taken by Coates and wife, the plaintiffs below, and the second by John A. Mackey, administrator of John Mackey, who was defendant. The first appeal involves the correctness of the ruling of the Court below, on the demurrer of the plaintiffs to the thirteenth plea, and the second involves the correctness of the ruling in sustaining the demurrer, to the tenth and fourteenth pleas.

It appears from the record, that John A. Mackey took out. letters of administration on the personal estate of John Mackey, in Chester…