Shepherd, Hooper & Co. v. Crawford

Hall, Justice.

The plaintiffs instituted suit against the defendant, as executor do son tort of Michael J. Crawford, deceased, and set forth in their declaration that they had employed deceased, in his lifetime, as an attorney at law, to collect a claim by note made to them by one Gilliam. This note was due in 1874; that deceased had collected the same, and failed to account to them for the amount. On the trial, they proved the execution of the receipt of deceased for *459the note, and gave it in evidence; they also proved by Gilliam that he had paid the same to deceased. Defendant objected to the…