Rush v. . Steamboat Company

The action was for the recovery of $190 and interest, due by note given 1 January, 1869, by one R. M. Orrell, an agent of the defendant, to the plaintiffs "as administrators of Benj. Rush, deceased," for "rents of wharf and warehouse until 1 January, 1870." The defendant, by said Orrell, confessed judgment for the amount of the note and then appealed to the Superior Court.

The papers and statement of the case, as sent up by the Justice under orders from the Superior Court, show that the summons ran in the name of the plaintiffs "as administrators of Benj. Rush," and that the complaint set…