Woodward ex rel. Harris, Wright & Co. v. Fisher
Mississippi Supreme Court
On appeal from the circuit court of Yazoo county; Hon. Robert 0. Perry, judge. Thomas B. Woodward, judge of the probate court of Yazoo county, for the use of Ezekiel Harris, Hamilton M. Wright, William Harris, William K. Ferguson, John H. Gillett, and Moses T. Hoff, constituting the late firm of Harris, Wright & Co., sued George Fisher, Beverly R. Grayson, and Nancy A. Brown, Little W. Brown, and Morgan L. Fitch, upon the administration bond of the three former, (with the…
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On appeal from the circuit court of Yazoo county; Hon. Robert 0. Perry, judge. Thomas B. Woodward, judge of the probate court of Yazoo county, for the use of Ezekiel Harris, Hamilton M. Wright, William Harris, William K. Ferguson, John H. Gillett, and Moses T. Hoff, constituting the late firm of Harris, Wright & Co., sued George Fisher, Beverly R. Grayson, and Nancy A. Brown, Little W. Brown, and Morgan L. Fitch, upon the administration bond of the three former, (with the two latter as their sureties), as administrators and administratrix, with the will annexed, of Jesse S. Brown, deceased,…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Sharkey
In an action on administrators’ bond, the plaintiffs assigned various breaches, in reply to a plea of conditions performed, to which the defendants rejoined. To several of the rejoinders the plaintiffs demurred generally, and the court overruled the demurrers. On the trial the plaintiffs offered in evidence the record of a judgment, recovered by them against the administrators, in a suit brought against Brown in his lifetime. This was rejected; and the overruling the demurrers, and the rejection of this record, are now assigned for errors.
The first demurrer was to the rejoinder of the third…
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