Beebe v. McNeill

The plaintiff alleges that the defendants made three notes in favor of Doom, of whose estate he is administrator; that they were inventoried as the property of the estate, and came into his possession as administrator ; but that afterwards his dwelling house was burned, and the notes, with all the petitioner’s papers, were destroyed in the conflagration. He asks judgment for their amount.

*131At the trial, the plaintiff offered evidence to prove that the notes had been destroyed by fire after they came into his possession, as administrator, to the admission of which evidence the defendants…