Mackey v. Ballou

In April, 1883, appellant filed a claim against himself as administrator of the estate of William Bailey, deceased. In his sworn statement accompanying the ■claim, he stated that it was for $216 costs, made and adjudged against him in an action by Peter Morton and his wife, Mary, to recover personal property which he had taken possession of, supposing and believing it to be property of the Bailey estate; that, at the time he took possession of the property, at the time the action was instituted by the Mortons, and at the time the judgment for costs was' rendered against him, he was the…