Tevis v. Tevis' Administrator

The only point in this case regards the proper classification of the allowance in favor of the plaintiff against the estate. The record shows that letters of administration upon the estate of Henry L. Tevis, deceased, were granted to 0. C. Sanders on the 11th day of April, 1858 ; that in October, 1853, John Tevis, the present plaintiff, instituted a suit in the Circuit Court of St. Louis county, returnable to the November *257term of said court in the same year, upon the same note which is the foundation of this present action ; that a summons, with a copy of the note, was duly served upon the…