Dean v. . Ragsdale

* Dillard, J., having been of counsel did not sit on the hearing of this case. This action is against the sureties to the bonds given by one Henry J. Pegram, guardian to the feme relator, to recover her estate in his hands. He died in 1864, and she attained her majority in the early part of the year 1874. The defence set up in the answer was a full settlement and compromise of the matters in controversy in a former suit on the same bonds and against the same sureties, and the adjudication therein. The only issue submitted to the jury was in these words: Did the female relator and the…