Grimes v. Booth

Hepsey Booth filed a claim in the Sebastian Probate Court, for allowance and classification against the estate of John Booth, deceased. The claim was an open account of but one item, as follows: “ To cash deposited with said John Booth for safe keeping, $77 '50.” The account was regularly sworn to, and endorsed by Marshal Grimes, administrator, etc., “ examined, disallowed and rejected.”

Grimes, as such administrator, filed a plea in abatement, alleging that the plaintiff did not, at the time of exhibiting the demand to him for allowance, or at any time before, etc., deliver to him a copy…