Whetstone v. Rawlins

This Suit was brought by Jacob Whetstone, as administrator of the successions of John A. and Martha S. Whetstone, to recover from the defendant, S. W. Rawlins, the balance of the proceeds of thirty-three bales of cotton, sold by him as a commission merchant.

The heirs of John A. and Martha S. Whetstone undertook to settle these successions among themselves, and thus save the expense of having them administered. In pursuance of this purpose Jacob Whetstone, a son of the deceased, and his two brothers-in-law, Peyton S. Graves and Sylvester G. Parsons, shipped, in the beginning of the *475year 1866,…