Knut v. Nutt
Mississippi Supreme Court
Prom the chancery court of Adams county. HoN. 'Wii/liaM P. S. Vehtbess, Chancellor. Knut, the appellant, was the complainant, and Nutt, administrator, and. others, appellees, were defendants in the court below.
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Prom the chancery court of Adams county. HoN. 'Wii/liaM P. S. Vehtbess, Chancellor. Knut, the appellant, was the complainant, and Nutt, administrator, and. others, appellees, were defendants in the court below. Tn May, 1874, a contract was entered into between Mrs. Julia A. Nutt, administratrix of the estate of Haller Nutt, and one Denver, an attorney, the material part of which is set out in the opinion of the court, by which Denver undertook to prosecute a claim of the estate of Haller Nutt against the United States Government for the use of property, and for property of which said estate…
1Opinion of the CourtQaxhoon, J.
Section 3477, Rey. St. IT. S. (TJ. S. Oomp. St., 1901, p. 2320), reads as follows (the italics being ours) : “All transfers and assignments made of any claim upon the United States, or of any part or share thereof, or interest therein, whether absolute or conditional, and whatever may be the consideration therefor, and all poivers of attorneys, orders or other authorities for receiving payment of any such claim, or of any part or share thereof, shall be absolutely null and void, unless they are freely made and executed in the presence of at least two attesting witnesses, after the allowance…
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