Willis v. Sutton

This was an action upon an administrator’s bond, brought by a guardian whose ward was the grandchild of the defendant’s intestate. The defendant sought to relieve himself from liability, by showing that there was a partnership existing between his intestate and himself at the date of the former’s death, and that he was entitled to credit, as against the claim of the plaintiff, for certain items growing out of the conduct of this partnership business and an agreement which had been entered into between the heirs of the intestate and himself; the mother of the plaintiff’s ward being one of the…