Citizens' Mutual Insurance v. Ligon
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from tbe Chancery Court of Chickasaw County. Hon. L. Haughton, Chancellor. The answers in this case denied the allegations of the bill that the assignment for creditors and the conveyance to Zelda Bean were fraudulent, and that Murray, the assignee, was incompetent and insolvent, and, upon the motion for the appointment of a receiver, which was heard on bill and answers at the same time as the demurrers, no evidence was introduced. 1. A deceased person’s estate is…
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Appeal from tbe Chancery Court of Chickasaw County. Hon. L. Haughton, Chancellor. The answers in this case denied the allegations of the bill that the assignment for creditors and the conveyance to Zelda Bean were fraudulent, and that Murray, the assignee, was incompetent and insolvent, and, upon the motion for the appointment of a receiver, which was heard on bill and answers at the same time as the demurrers, no evidence was introduced. 1. A deceased person’s estate is liable on a note given for his debt by his executor. Yerger v. Foote, 48 Miss. 62. The notes are as binding on the estate…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, J.
The complainants exhibited their bill in the Chancery Court of Chickasaw County, against Greenwood Ligón as executor of Simon Meyers deceased, and against him personally, and against him as trustee under the will of Meyers, for Mrs. Alice Foster and Mrs. Lelia Ligón, and as guardian for Kate and Lizzie Meyers, and against Morris Houseman, George W. Bean, Mrs. Zelda Bean, his wife, and Charles *310G. Murray. The bill charges, that on the 20th day of April, 1878, the commercial firm of Meyers, Houseman & Co. (composed of Simon Meyers, Morris Houseman, and George W. Bean) was indebted to the firm of…
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