McNeilly v. Cooksey

On the 11th of January, 1862, George ~W. Nichols recovered a judgment before a justice of the peace, against ~W. H. Nichols and. complainant Thos. McNeilly, for $101.33, on a note executed by the former as principal debtor and the latter as surety, and which fell due on the 22d day of the previous October. This judgment was stayed by John C. Collier. During the war Nichols sold and transferred the judgment to the defendant George T. Cooksey. ~W. H. Nichols, the principal debtor, died early in 1863, and his estate proved and was suggested to be insolvent, and was being administered as such…