Kent's adm'r v. Kent's adm'r

Moncure, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a writ of error to a judgment of the circuit -court of Wythe county, rendered on the 12th. day of March 1874, in an action of debt in said county, in which J. A. Welsh, administrator de bonis non of James R. Kent, was plaintiff, and D. O. Kent, administrator ■of Gordon C. Kent, was defendant. The action was brought on the 9th of March 1869, on a writing obligatory in these words:

“ $5,600. I, Gordon C. Kent, do for value received, promise for myself, my heirs, &c., to pay to James R. Kent, his heirs or assigns, five thousand six hundred…