Weaver v. . Jones

This action, commenced in 1866 in the county of Polk and in 1867 removed to Henderson, was depending in the superior court thereof at the death of the defendant’s intestate in 1872, and a month afterwards administration on his estate was committed to the defendant. At fall term, 1873, under an arrangement previously entered into between the counsel for the plaintiff and the intestate, the original defendant, who assumed still to represent the administrator, that no formal process need issue to make him a party, an order was entered making the defendant a party as of the preceding term and the…