Allen v. Smith

On the 9th of October, 1866, Brazel B. Smith, as administrator of the estate of Petyma Smith, filed his bill of complaint in the Arkansas circuit court against Thomas H. Allen and Ira M. Hill as administrators of the estate of Lewis Shanks, deceased, and the unknown heirs of Shanks, in which it was alleged that on the 21st day of December, 1858, his intestate, Petyma Smith, with several other parties, for the consideration of $24,000, to be paid at different dates and amounts,'to the parties grantors, one of which notes was executed, by Shanks for the sum of $5,000, due one year from the 10th…