Watkins' Adm'rs v. State ex rel. Shaw
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Error to Anne Arundel County Court. This was an action of debt, brought on the 25th of October, 1815, in the name of the State, at the instance, and for the use of James Shaw, surviving administrator of Richard W. Wells, against the appellant’s intestate, Nicholas Watkins of Thomas, after whose death, Rachel H. Watkins, and Benjamin Watkins, the present appellants, as his administrators, became parties to the suit, on a bond, executed by a certain John Boyd Watkins, as…
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Error to Anne Arundel County Court. This was an action of debt, brought on the 25th of October, 1815, in the name of the State, at the instance, and for the use of James Shaw, surviving administrator of Richard W. Wells, against the appellant’s intestate, Nicholas Watkins of Thomas, after whose death, Rachel H. Watkins, and Benjamin Watkins, the present appellants, as his administrators, became parties to the suit, on a bond, executed by a certain John Boyd Watkins, as guardian of the said Richard W. Wells, in which the intestate of the appellants was a surety, dated on the 12th day of…
1Opinion of the CourtStephen, J.
This action was instituted against Nicholas Watkins, of Thomas, the appellant’s intestate, one of the sureties of John Boyd Watkins, now deceased, to recover from him, in his ,. character of surety for said Watkins, as guardian to Richard W. Wells, the appellee’s intestate, a certain sum of money, charged to be in the hands of Watkins, his principal, and for which it was charged he had not accounted according to law. This sum of money was claimed to be recovered by the appellee, as administrator of Richard W. Wells, one of the representatives of John Wells, deceased, who by his will appointed…
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