State ex rel. Burrough v. Farmer

This action was brought against the defendant on an executor’s bond.

William Johnson died in Cape Girardeau county in the year 1864, leaving a will in which his wife Sarah L. Johnson, John H. Clark and John H. Wilson were named as his executors. The will was proved and recorded in said county, and on the tenth day of August, 1854, the parties named as executors in the will appeared in the proper Probate court and executed their bond in the usual form as the executors of the estate of the deceased in a penalty of twenty-five thousand dollars, with Thomas Johnson, James Cannon and Alfred Lacy as…