Stevenson's Heirs v. Sullivant

18 U.S. 207

5 L.Ed. 70

5 Wheat. 207

STEVENSON'S Heirs

v.

SULLIVANT.

March 4, 1820

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APPEAL from the Circuit Court of Ohio. This was a suit in Chancery, and the case upon the facts admitted by the parties, was as follows: Previous to the year 1775, Hugh Stephenson, of Virginia, lived and cohabited with Ann Whaley, and had by her the appellants in this cause, whom he recognized as his children. In July, 1775, he made his will, in which he described the appellants as the children of himself, and of his wife Ann, and devised the whole of his property to them, and to their mother. In July, 1776, he…