Hannum v. Curtis

This was an action founded upon a claim on file in the Court of Common Pleas, against the estate of John Curtis, deceased.

Hannum was the plaintiff below.

The claim is for various items of carriage work, amounting to 33 dollars; also for 350 dollars, money placed in the decedent’s hands to pay taxes. As evidence of the receipt of the money, two instruments in writing were filed with the claim. They read thus:

“ Springfield, June 21, 1844. Received of Leonard Hcmnum fifty dollars, to apply on amount paid for taxes, and to be paid in the states of Indiana and Illinois, and which I am to forward…