Patrick v. Jack

On the trial before the justice of the peace, plaintiff, as administrator, recovered a judgment for §20, from which defendant prosecuted an appeal to the circuit court. A trial de novo was had in the latter court, when defendant recovered a judgment for §1.07 against plaintiff, to be paid in due course of administration.

The controversy has relation to mutual accounts between defendant and plaintiff’s intestate. The court before whom the trial was had examined the books kept by defendant and decedent, and found a small balance due defendant, and with that conclusion we see no reason to be…