Gunn's Adm'r v. County of Pulaski

This is an application, founded on the petition of William Gunn, sworn to by himself, for a mandamus to the County Court of the county of Pulaski, to compel said Court to allow his account for the expenses of burying one Patrick Farrelly.

From said petition, it appears that Farrelly died within the corporate limits of the city of Little Rock, in the month of August, 1839, leaving no money, property, or effects, from which the expenses attending his burial could be paid: that he was buried by Gunn, who incurred and has borne the whole of the expenses incident to his interment: that he had a…