Swoope v. Trotter
Supreme Court of Alabama
This was a bill in Chancery, filed in Lawrence Circuit Court, by Jacob K. Swoope against Joseph Trotter. The bill charged, that on, or about the-- day of October, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, orator and Joseph Trotter became the sureties of one David J. Poore, in a bond, given by the latter as the guardian of William W. and Thomas S. Logwood, infants.
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This was a bill in Chancery, filed in Lawrence Circuit Court, by Jacob K. Swoope against Joseph Trotter. The bill charged, that on, or about the-- day of October, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, orator and Joseph Trotter became the sureties of one David J. Poore, in a bond, given by the latter as the guardian of William W. and Thomas S. Logwood, infants. That in pursuance of said guardianship, the said Poore took possession of the slaves and other estate of the said wards, being at that time, (unknown to orator,) very greatly embarrassed in his circumstances. That the said Trotter well…
1Opinion of the CourtI-Iitchcock, C. J.
— This is a bill in equity,filed by the plaintiff in error, Swoope, against Trotter, as co-secürity in a guardianship bond for one David J. Poore, as guardian of Wm. V/. and Thomas S. Log-wood, to compel a contribution; alleging that bis co-secnrity had received of their principal, Poore, in payment of the individual debt of Poore to the firm of Trotter & McGonegal, a portion of the trust funds.
The bill charges that Poore, the guardian, while managing the funds of his wards, being considerably indebted to the firm of Trotter & McGonegal, and being much embarrassed, and while prosecuting two…
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