Knight v. Atkisson

The Chancellor :

— Demurrer to a bill filed the 8th of August, 1874, showing the following facts : On the 4th of October, 1867, A. C. Stockard, as administrator of James L. Bell, deceased, recovered a judgment in the circuit court of Davidson county, Tennessee, by default, against the complainant S. S. Knight as principal, and complainant D. W. Knight as his surety, on a note executed by them, for $331.90 and costs. Stockard was appointed and qualified as administrator of Bell’s estate in 1860, and filed his bill in this court to have the estate, upon suggestion of its insolvency, administered…