Adriance v. Crews
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Brazoria. Tried below before the Hon. A. P. McCormick. On the twentieth of June, 1871, Crews brought suit against Adriance, as administrator of the estate of Patton, in the District Court of Brazoria, for the recovery of the sum of $2672.35, alleged to be due him for services rendered the estate of Patton as overseer for the years 1861 to 1865 inclusive, and interest.
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Appeal from Brazoria. Tried below before the Hon. A. P. McCormick. On the twentieth of June, 1871, Crews brought suit against Adriance, as administrator of the estate of Patton, in the District Court of Brazoria, for the recovery of the sum of $2672.35, alleged to be due him for services rendered the estate of Patton as overseer for the years 1861 to 1865 inclusive, and interest. He filed with his petition an account for that amount in currency, sworn to, presented to said administrator and by him rejected. The petition alleges that Adriance was carrying on a plantation under the order of the…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
This was an action brought in the court below, by W. E. Crews v. John Adriance, as administrator of the estate of C. R. Patton.
*153The plaintiff claimed that there was due him for services, as overseer, rendered to the estate of Patton, about $2700.
The defendant plead a settlement, in bar of the action, and, on the trial, to support his plea, offered in evidence the following instrument of writing:
“$2555.35.
“Columbia, April 10, 1866.
“Received of John Adriance, administrator of estate of C. R. Patton, twenty-five hundred and fifty-five dollars and thirty-five cents, in specie or its equivalent, in…
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