Mulherin v. Neely

J. C. Mulherin filed suit against the executors of R. C. Neely to recover the amount of a number of open accounts which the plaintiff had' purchased at public sale from the trustee of a corporation bankrupt, R. C. Neely Company. The petition showed that the accounts were entered upon the company’s books as charges against various individuals, and that they were sold as accounts against these persons as the debtors, but the petition further alleged that R. C. Neely during his lifetime was engaged extensively in the business of farming, and that the persons so appearing upon the books of the…