Treadwell v. Herndon
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the Probate Court of Madison county. Hon. M. M. Cooper, judge. Wallace Henderson, in his last will and testament, bequeathed certain slaves to H. P. Herndon. Lawson E. Henderson was the executor of the will of Wallace Henderson,, and the guardian of I). P. Herndon. Lawson F. Henderson dies intestate, and Jefferson Love was appointed his administrator.
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Error to the Probate Court of Madison county. Hon. M. M. Cooper, judge. Wallace Henderson, in his last will and testament, bequeathed certain slaves to H. P. Herndon. Lawson E. Henderson was the executor of the will of Wallace Henderson,, and the guardian of I). P. Herndon. Lawson F. Henderson dies intestate, and Jefferson Love was appointed his administrator. Mary G. Herndon, who, after the death of Lawson' F. Henderson, was appointed guardian of D. P. Herndon, obtained a decree in the Probate Court of Madison county against Love, administrator of Henderson, for the sum of $4,800. This…
1Opinion of the Court
Harris, L,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The questions presented in this case arise out of a motion made in the court below, to quash a writ of fieri facias, issued from the Probate Court, on the 13th day of October, 1865, in favor of the defendant in error against the plaintiffs, command*43ing the sheriff to make a certain sum of money therein specified out of the goods and chattels, lands cmd tenements, and estate, of Lawson F. Henderson deceased, in the hands and possession of said Margaret Q. Treadwell and Ann Elizabeth C. Postell, distributees of the estate of said Henderson deceased.
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