Braswell v. Hicks

It appears from the record that T. A. Parsons Sr. died. A woman named Jane Ennis, now Braswell, opened his trunk and took therefrom money to the amount of $1,200, claiming it as her own. She afterwards deposited it with Hicks, the present defendant in error. Shortly thereafter Hicks was made administrator of Parsons. Mrs. Braswell demanded of him the money deposited, and he refused to surrender it; whereupon she brought her action of trover against Hicks individually, to recover the money. Hicks pleaded, in substance, that, after he had received the money from her, he had ascertained that it…