Meek v. Spencer

Davison, <L

This was assumpsit, instituted under the old system of procedure, by Spencer and McCurry, administrators of John McCurry; deceased, against William Meek. The declaration alleges that in October, 1851, the administrators sold to Meek, at public auction, a quantity of corn, then standing and growing on the farm owned by, the decedent at his death, which corn was to be gathered by them and stored upon the premises within a reasonable time after the sale; that Meek bid off the corn as follows: 250 bushels at 31 cents, and the residue, alleged to be 984 bushels, at 32 cents per bushel —…