Primm v. Mensing Bros. Co.

GARRETT, Chief Justice.

This action was brought by the appellees against the appellants, as executors of the estate of St. John Primm, deceased, to recover on certain promissory notes given for supplies furnished the executors to carry on a plantation for the benefit of the estate of their testator. The defense was that the goods were not purchased for the estate, but for the individual business of one of the executors. There was a trial by jury, and appellees recovered judgment for the amount of the debt sued on.

St. John Primm died in October, 1880, testate, leaving an estate worth about…