Root v. Stevenson's Administrator

Deloss Root sued Columbus 8. Stevenson, administrator of the estate of Richard Stevenson, deceased, for $1300. There were two paragraphs in his complaint. The first was for money had and received by the intestate for the use of the plaintiff, and money loaned by the plaintiff to the decedent. The second charges that, in the summer of 1862, the plaintiff, said Richard, and one Cheatham, entered into an agreement to purchase supplies for the federal army at Nashville, for a limited time, by which Cheatham was to make the purchases, keep and pay out the moneys used in the business, and when the…