Duncan's Adm'rs v. Duncans

Opinion of the Court,

bf-Ch. J. Bofle.

THIS was an action of detinue, brought by Susanna as administratrix, and James Downing as administrator of Benjamin Duncan, deceased, against Duncan and Daniel Duncan, for the detention sundi’y notes or bonds executed by Benjamín Hudgens to the intestate. The cause was tried upon the plea of non detinet, and on the trial it appeared from the evidence that the intestate had, in his lifetime, been possessed of the bonds in question, and had deposited them in the hands of one Hanks, telling him to keep them until he called for them; that his wife and her…