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46 Ala. 383

Dempsey, Harrel & Co. v. Stapleton

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided June 15, 1871

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1871-06-15

Tried before Hon. J. McCaleb Wiley. Stapleton, as the administrator of Odom, sued the appellants on a promissory note made by them in favor of his intestate. Under the ploas of the general issue and payment, it was shown that the note was given for a balance due on a purchase of cotton made by the defendants from Odom.

Relies on Boynton v. Sawyer

Decided 1871-06-15

B. E. SAEE0LD, J.

¶1The proof does not tend to establish any right in the plaintiff to recover the money. His intestate does not appear to have accounted for it. It *384either belonged to the estate of Gunn, in which case an administrator de bonis non of bis estate is the proper person to sue, or to his widow. If her quarantine was not otherwise settled, she might have recovered its value from the representatives of her husband’s estate by a suit at law, as the corpus of her separate estate. — Boynton v. Sawyer and Wife, 35 Ala. 497. If the money now sued for was a part of it, it was properly paid to her.

¶2The charge that the jury must find for the plaintiff, was erroneous.

¶3The judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded.

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