Pickett v. Bates

The judgment of the court was pronounced by

Sr.ro eld, J.

The plaintiffs claim from Henry Bales the sum of $1201 75, ns an amount which they have been obliged to pay as his sureties on the bond given by him as adininirtrator of the estate of Philemon Hightower, They also made the defendant’s wife, Charlotte Hightower, and William, S, Hightower, parties defendants; and prayed that a donation made by Bates to his minor child, and a sale made by 14m to W. S. Hightower, might be annulled as fraudulent and simulated.

In the course of the trial the plaintiff offered in evidence a transcript of the…