Case ID: mo_1/html/0553-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Wash, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The Governor, to the use of Hill and Keese, v. Chouteau.
    APPEAL from St. Louis Circuit Court.
   £A new trial having been granted in this case, the judgment of the Circuit Court is affirmed, for the same reasons mentioned in the opinion of this Court, delivered at the last term, j

Wash, J.

I dissent from the opinion given in this cause on one point, that the receipt given by the principal in the administration bond, on which the defendant is sued as security, in words following, viz : — St. Louis, October 23d, 1823. Received of John K. Walker, Sheriff of the county of St. Louis, four thousand two hundred dollars, the amount of the surplus made by the sale of a lot of ground, in the city of St. Louis, as the property of the estate of Thomas Brady, deceased, on execution in favor of S. Bond and Pierre Menard, against John Rice Jones, administrator of said deceased, (signed) John Rice Jones, administrator of Thomas Brady, deceased” — is no evidence of assets within the condition of said administration bond, and for which the administrator’s security can be held responsible.