Tennessee Supreme Court September 15, 1844 (Crippen v. Bearden)

Green, J.

delivered the opinion of the court.

This bill is filed by the widow, and infant children, by their guardian, of Samuel Odell, deceased, against the administrator Bearden, charging that through fraud or negligence he had failed to collect debts due the estate, and particularly the sum of 660 dollars which Samuel Odell in bis lifetime had paid to William Odell upon a verbal contract for