McMicken v. Riley

The defendants are stated in the petition, . to have been appointed administrators in the state of Mississippi of a debtor of the petitioners, named Samuel Riley. The petition sets out the cause of action to be a debt due by the intestate in his life time; and avers that the fendants have taken into their possession the whole of his estate, and by doing so, have made themselves responsible by the laws of sippi for the debt due the plaintiff It concludes with a prayer that an attachment may issue against the goods and chattels, See. of the defendants. “And that it be ordered, adjudged and…