Smith, Adm'r. v. . Lawrence

The following are the material facts as agreed:

Richard H. Smith, as administrator, with the will annexed of Margaret W. Davis, claims to recover of John T. Lawrence two hundred and seventy-eight dollars and seventy-six cents, with interest on one hundred and sixty dollars, from March 22d 1874, and the defendant resists the claim.

The controversy depends upon the following grounds: On the first day of January, 1874, one William H. Shields, being the guardian of two infant children named respectively Indiana Shields and Alice Shields, domiciled in Halifax county, at Greenwood, a public hiring…