Bryan v. Jones

1. On the trial of an action brought by an administrator for the recovery of certain gold coin and other personalty, alleged to be in the possession of the defendant and to have been in the possession of the intestate at the time of his death, where there was evidence tending to show that the intestate, during his last illness and within a few days prior to his death, told the defendant, who had been nursing him during .such illness, that there was sufficient money in- intestate’s trunk, where he kept his gold, to pay all the expenses of his burial, and that the defendant could “have the…