Yerkes v. Broom

This is a suit brought by the representative of certain minor heirs of Samuel Broom, deceased, to remove from office George L. Broom, the executor of the last will of Samuel Broom, on the grounds :

1st. That said George L. Broom, being- a resident citizen of Pennsylvania, and as such, under the legal obligation, to give security before obtaining letters testamentary, has practised a gross deception and legal fraud upon the court in which the succession of Samuel Broom was opened, by representing himself, in his petition for letters, as a resident of New Orleans; by means whereof he has…