Littlejohn v. . Underhill

The plaintiff's writ was executed on the defendant 2 January, 1815, returnable to Chowan County Court on the second Monday of March ensuing. The defendant sold all the property of his testator on 17 January, 1815, at six months credit. At March term, to wit, on 17 March, 1815, the defendant entered the foregoing pleas. The defendant, on the trial, introduced satisfactory evidence under the plea of "retainer," and for the payment of the funeral charges and his own commissions, with the disbursement of all the assets with which he was charged, except the sum of $704.60; and as to that sum he…