State ex rel. Adams v. Campbell
Supreme Court of Missouri
ERROR to Pike Circuit Court. That the Circuit Court erred in sustaining the demurrer to the declaration. 1. Because the declaration is substantially good; and if technically defective, could only he reached by a special demurrer. 2. The 4th, 5th and 6th breaches are well assigned.
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ERROR to Pike Circuit Court. That the Circuit Court erred in sustaining the demurrer to the declaration. 1. Because the declaration is substantially good; and if technically defective, could only he reached by a special demurrer. 2. The 4th, 5th and 6th breaches are well assigned. After a payment of debts by a foreign, ad- , ministrator, the balancean his hands, is subject to distribution according to the laws of the place of the intestate’s residence, at the time of his death, and ought to he transmitted to the domestic administrator, for that purpose. Story’s Con., § 513, 514,518; Davis vs.…
1Opinion of the CourtScott, J.
This was an action of debt on an administrator’s bond, instituted at the instance of Nancy Adams, guardian of the infant children of Daniel Adams, and for her and their use. The defendants were the sureties of Thomas Bland, the administrator of D. Adams. There was but one count in the declaration, containing seven breaches of the condition of the bond. The first three breaches alleged in substance, that the administrator Bland had received several sums of money, for which he had failed to account. The remaining breaches allege substantially, that Bland the administrator in this State, took…
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