Allen v. Baugus
Tennessee Supreme Court
This was a bill filed upon the facts and in the manner stated i n the opinion, in the chancery court at Somerville. At the May term, 1851, Chancellor Jones, presiding, a decree was rendered against defendant Baugus, from which he appealed. insisted that the bill should be dismissed, and cited Sto. Eq. PI. §§ 170-1; Mar. & Yorg. R. 378,382; 10 Yerg. 385; 2 Humph. 560; 6 Humph. 157.
1Opinion of the CourtMcKinney, J.
The complainants on the 29th of December, 1849, filed this bill, in which they allege that they are the distributees of the estate of James Allen, who died intestate, in the State qf Alabama, in the year 1838 , that the defendant, Baugus, who is a resident of Hardeman county in this State, is indebted to the estate of said James Allen in the sum of five hundred dollars, by an obligation under seal, executed by the former to the latter, on the 24th of March, 1838; that no administration on the estate of said Allen had ever been granted, either in Alabama or Tennessee ; but, that if required,…
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