Lewis v. McCabe

The plaintiff as public administrator of the city of St. Louis, undertook to act as administrator of the estate of W. J. Maynard, who died in New Orleans in the year 1867. In that capacity the plaintiff prosecuted a suit which had been commenced by his predecessor in office, against the legal representatives of Catherine O. Long, deceased, for an alleged waste and conversion by her in her lifetime of valuable property of Maynard’s, in the city of New Orleans after his death. He obtained ajudgment in the circuit court, which was affirmed by the court of appeals, and was thereupon taken by…