Pendergrass
Pendergrass v. Axx
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Two actions were commenced in the court below by the plaintiff Pendergrass, the one against Josephine M. Axx individually for money had and received in the sum of $1200, and the other against her in her representative capacity as executrix of the last will and testament of Ada F. Brinkworth, deceased, to recover, first, the sum of $471.50, the value of certain property claimed by the plaintiff to which it was alleged the defendant asserted title; second, the sum of $3,300 for services rendered; third, $1309.60 to cover obligations of the deceased alleged to have been paid by plaintiff, and fourth, $197, being the amount of other obligations of the testator for which the plaintiff alleged he was being held responsible. The two actions were tried together, resulting in a judgment in the first action against the defendant in her individual capacity in the sum of $600, and in the second action against her as executrix in the sum of $429.14. The defendánt prosecutes appeals from both judgments. By stipulation the records are presented to us by one transcript. The respondent has afforded us no assistance, having filed no brief in support of his position. We shall, therefore,, under rule…