Succession of Henderson

In the month of February, 1842, the appellants, Cross and others, presented a petition to the Court of Probates, stating that they were the testamentary executors of John Henderson, who died in Scotland; that they had made due proof of his will, which had been regularly admitted to probate in that country, and that they had duly qualified as his executors. They stated that Stephen Henderson had for some time acted as administrator of the estate, and had at one time made opposition to their acting as executors here, but that upon the production of sufficient evidence, he had withdrawn his…