Williams v. Young
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pulaski Chancery Court. Thomas B. Ma*rtin, Chancellor. statement by the court. This bill was filed on March 7, 1898, in the Pulaski chancery court, by Maggie Young and the other minor children of W. N. Young, deceased, by C. N. Alexander, their guardian, and also as administrator of the estate of W. N. Young, against Alexander Williams and Mary Williams, his wife.
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Appeal from Pulaski Chancery Court. Thomas B. Ma*rtin, Chancellor. statement by the court. This bill was filed on March 7, 1898, in the Pulaski chancery court, by Maggie Young and the other minor children of W. N. Young, deceased, by C. N. Alexander, their guardian, and also as administrator of the estate of W. N. Young, against Alexander Williams and Mary Williams, his wife. The bill alleges that on January 1, 1880, W. N. Young, in his life time, executed and delivered to Alexander Williams his certain bond for title, by which said bond tbe said Young bound himself, his heirs and assigns, to…
1Opinion of the Court
Hughes, L,
(after stating the facts.) The material questions in this case are payment and the statute of limitations.
The defendant (the appellant) contends that the evidence shows that the two notes given for the two last payments of the purchase money had been paid long before the suit in this case was commenced. He says that it is shown by a memorandum account made by Capt. Young in his life time in a small book of Williams, the appellee, that Williams had paid to Capt. Young from time to time amounts of money which overpaid any book account Capt. Young had against Williams in sufficient…
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