Thompson v. Branch's Administrators

In January, 1867, Annie W. Branch rented a certain plantation to B. W. Durdin for one-year, and took his note for the amount of the rent, payable to herself on the first day of November following.. B. W. Durdin died in October, 1867, and Annie W. Branch, the payee of the note, died in the early part of the same year. In February, 1868, appellees, as administrators of the estate of Edward T. Branch, sued out a distress warrant, before a justice of the peace, against the estate of B. W. Durdin, to satisfy a balance due on said note, and had the same levied on certain cotton, the product of the…