Case ID: miss_23/html/0319-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

T. W. Wilkinson & Co. vs. Paul B. Barringer, Adm’r.
    The statute of .limitations of 1846 does not embrace administrations granted previous to its passage, and in such cases non-residents have three years in which to present their claims to the administrator.
    In error from the circuit court of La Fayette county; Hon. Hugh R. Miller, judge.
    
      Howry & Hayes, for plaintiff in error.
    
      H A. Barr, for defendant in error.
   Per curiam.

In the case of William Robertson, Trustee, v. Mary Demoss, Adm'x, at the present term of the court, (ante, p. 298,) it was decided, that the statute of 1846 did not embrace administrations granted previous to its passage. In such a case a non-resident creditor would have three years in which to present his claim to the administrator.

Judgment reversed, and cause remanded.