Cromine v. Tharp

At the April Term, 1846, of the Tazewell Circuit Court, John Tharp, as administrator of Jonathan Tharp, filed a petition for leave to sell lands for the payment of debts, making the heirs of the deceased, parties, all of whom were infants except the plaintiff in error, Matilda Cromine, who was a married woman. The heirs jointly brought the record here under a writ of error, but, as the writ was barred by the statute of limitations as to all except Matilda Cromine, the feme covert, the counsel for plaintiffs in error dismissed it as to all the heirs except her. It is not therefore necessary to…