Case ID: ind_1/html/0450-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Blackford, J. — \n      Per Curiam. —", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Williams and Another v. Williams, Administrator de bonis non of Williams, deceased.
    
      Monday, November 26.
    Assumpsit by an administrator de bonis non, on a promissory note payable to tbe former administrator. Plea, general issue, and judgment for the defendant. Held, that it "will be presumed that, on the trial, the note ■was proved to be payable to the estate of the intestate.
    ERROR to the Morgan Circuit Court.
    
      L. Barbour, for the plaintiffs.
    
      J. L. Ketcham, for the defendant.
   Blackford, J. —

This .was an action of assumpsit brought by William Williams, administrator de bonis non of Margaret Williams.

The suit is founded on a promissory note payable to Jonathan Williams, administrator of Margaret Williams.

The defendants pleaded the general issue. The cause was submitted to the Court, and judgment rendered for the plaintiff.

The only question raised in this case, which requires notice, is, whether the note sued on belonged to the estate of Margaret Williams ?

The note Is payable to Jonathan Williams, administrator of Margaret Williams. If it had been payable to the payee as administrator of Margaret Williams, the point would have been clear. The objection, had the declaration been demurred to, would have deserved consideration. Here, however, the defendants pleaded the general issue, and the plaintiff obtained a judgment on the merits.

It must now be presumed that it was proved on the trial that the note belonged to the estate of Margaret Williams.

Per Curiam.

The judgment is affirmed with costs.