Ball v. Ball

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Fenner, J.

William Ball died leaving a will, of which he appointed the defendants to be executors. They opened his succession, qualified as executors, and made a partial administration of the estate, of which they filed a provisional account which was homologated, but the administration has never been completed and no final account has been rendered.

The will contained the following special bequests: “ I leave to my dear brother, Dr. Immer W. Ball, twenty-five hundred, and to my dear sister, Mary J. McKnight, fifteen hundred dollars, -which my executors…