Copley v. Dowell
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Action before the Court of Probates for the parish of Ouachita,. Leamy, J., against John Dowell, as testamentary executor of Nancy Strong, alias Kirkpatrick, and tutor of James Strong, her only child, for the sum of fourteen hundred dollars, being an amount alleged to he due to one John Morrison, for two years services as overseer on the plantation of the deceased, of which claim the plaintiff became the purchaser at a sale of the said claim by the sheriff of the parish of…
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Action before the Court of Probates for the parish of Ouachita,. Leamy, J., against John Dowell, as testamentary executor of Nancy Strong, alias Kirkpatrick, and tutor of James Strong, her only child, for the sum of fourteen hundred dollars, being an amount alleged to he due to one John Morrison, for two years services as overseer on the plantation of the deceased, of which claim the plaintiff became the purchaser at a sale of the said claim by the sheriff of the parish of Ouachita, under a judgment in a suit of the plaintiff against said John Morrison. The petition alleges that the defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
The plaintiff is appellant from a judgment which rejects his claim against the estate of one Nancy M. Strong alias Kirkpatrick, deceased. It appears he purchased this claim for one dollar at a sheriff’s sale on a credit of twelve months ; being the claim of his debtor, Morrison, who had been employed as an overseer for more than a year, at the request of his deceased sister made *28in her will, on a plantation which was part of her estate : hot the plaintiff neglected to give notice of this purchase to the defendant, as executor of said estate, who in the mean while settled with Morrison, from…
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