Frost v. Winston
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Weston Court of Common Pleas. I. The eighth error of the court is the most prominent one in the case. It is in relation to the computation of interest. The defendant excepted to the report of the commissioner because the commissioner compounded the interest annually at the rate of six per cent.; and the court sustained the exception and referred the case back, with directions to compute at simple interest and not compound it.
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Appeal from Weston Court of Common Pleas. I. The eighth error of the court is the most prominent one in the case. It is in relation to the computation of interest. The defendant excepted to the report of the commissioner because the commissioner compounded the interest annually at the rate of six per cent.; and the court sustained the exception and referred the case back, with directions to compute at simple interest and not compound it. The plaintiff contended that it should be compounded annually; and the question for the court to decide is whether the interest should be compounded or not,…
1Opinion of the CourtRates, Judge
In 1836, James R. Erost died in North Carolina, having made his will, whereby he appointed the defendant executor thereof, and his widow Louisa and the defendant (who was *494brother of the widow) guardians of his two children, of whom the plaintiff is one.
The defendant administered the estate, which was all converted into money. In 1838 the defendant and the widow Frost removed to Missouri, bringing the children with them, and so much of the estate as was then realized, and the remainder was afterward sent to and received by the defendant. Immediately after their arrival in Missouri, William…
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