Haile v. McGhee, Snowden & Violett

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Egan, J.

The plaintiff, as the administrator of the succession of E. H. Haile, who died in August, 1872, and whose succession was opened in the parish of West Feliciana, sues the defendants for the proceeds of sixty bales of cotton, and of one-third of twenty bales, which, as administrator, he consigned to the defendants for sale, during the months of October, November, and December, 1872. The proceeds of this cotton is alleged in the petition to be $4933 25, received by defendants and not paid over.

Plaintiff alleges that the succession of E. H. Haile…