Barnes v. People

This was a proceeding instituted in the County Court by appellee as administrator of Hannah Chapman, under Sec. 81, Chap. 3, B. S., for the recovery of the notes in question, and was afterward heard on appeal by the Circuit Court, where judgment was rendered that such notes belonged to appellee as such administrator and were not the property of appellant Barnes.

Hannah Chapman, the deceased, had resided with appellant about eleven years, was fifty years of age and unmarried, and the aunt of appellant’s wife. About a year prior to her death she was afflicted with a dangerous and contagious…