Lodge v. Hulings

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummeke, Chief-J ustice.

One Paschal L. Hulings, in his lifetime, executed and delivered to his mother, Rachel R. Hulings, certain promissory notes to secure the payment of moneys loaned by her to him. He died without having paid these notes, and, after his death, Mrs. Hulings gave them to the defendants, who were his sons, and also his executors, by whom they were destroyed. The complainant, as administrator of Mrs. Hulings, seeks, by his bill, to have the transfer of the notes to the defendants declared to be invalid, and the notes re-established as…