Graham v. State ex rel. Reynolds

Debt by the state, on the relation of an administrator de bonis nont against the original administrator and his sureties, on their bond, to recover assets, &c.

The defendants denied the breach assigned, and the cause was submitted to the Court without a jury, upon an agreement of counsel “that the defendants might show any general and special matter of defence on the trial, as fully as if the same were specially pleaded;” and the parties further agreed upon the amount for which execution should go upon the judgment, if it should be against the defendants, on the question of the breach of the…