Benge's Administrator v. Fouts

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hurt

Affirming.

This appeal is from a judgment in the Clay circuit court for the sum of five thousand and five hundred dollars, in favor of the appellee, Kitty Fouts, against the appellant, George A. Young, administrator of the estate of Elmira J. Benge, more commonly called in the record, Jane Benge. A little history of the facts out of which the controversy grew, as well as the relations between the actors, will be necessary to an understanding of the questions at issue. The intestate, Jane Benge, seems to have-been a native of the state of Iowa, or probably she…