Picot v. Bates

This case has heretofore been before this court, and is reported in 39 Mo. 292. All the preliminary questions raised by defendants were there decided, and we have only now to consider the question of fraud as charged in the petition.

• P. M. Dillon, deceased, was administrator of the estate of' his deceased wife, and, as such, in 1845 made his final settlement, in which he charged himself with $2,768.49, as received from the estate of John T. Nash, upon a claim in favor of his said wife. The acoount shows sundry credits, the first of which are $2,301.20 debt and $1,116.09 interest, entered as…