Smith v. Allen

English, Ch. J.:

Bella Allen (a widow) sued Thomas Smith, before a justice of the peace of Pulaski County, on an open account, for $101, and on the 2d of March, 1874, recovered judgment for $75. Smith appealed to the Circuit Court (9th March, 1874,) and executed an appeal bond, with James Coates as surety.

On the 3d of June, 1875, Mary Allen, infant daughter, and only child of Bella Allen, appeared in the Circuit Court, by her next friend, McG. W. J. Bell, her grandfather, and suggested that her mother had died intestate, leaving an estate of less than $300 in value, and praying to be…