Wall v. Colbert

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Manning, J.

The defendant is the executor of William S. Parham who died in April 1882. The suit is for the recovery of certain moneys belonging to the plaintiffs, received by Parham as their agent, or for so much thereof as he could not account for.

*884The plaintiffs owned a plantation that Parham sold for them in 1869 for ten thousand dollars, which he received. He was half-brother to Wall, the deceased husband of the plaintiff Laura. The other plaintiffs are Wall’s children. He managed the business of his widowed sister and of her children, and his…