28 Mo. 333
Decided March 15, 1859
Supreme Court of Missouri · decided 1859-03-15
Louis Court of Common Pleas. This was an action to recover the hire of a certain slave alleged to have been hired by the plaintiff to defendant, and the value of certain other slaves alleged to have been wrongfully taken and converted by the defendant. Harney, the plaintiff, was appointed administrator de bonis non of the estate of Milton Duty, deceased. The slaves in controversy belonged to said estate.
Relies on Mullanphy v. St. Louis County Court
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Decided 1859-03-15
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 1902
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¶1delivered the opinion of the court.
¶2The only question in this case is whether the appeal, taken by the plaintiff, from the order of the probate court revoking *335his letters of administration, suspended the effect of the order. The point was decided in Mullanphy v. County Court of St. Louis County, 6 Mo. 563, and is decisive of this case.