Gamble v. Gibson

At the December term, 1867, of the Probate Court of St. Louis County, Charles Gibson presented his final settlement as executor of the estate of Hamilton R. Gamble, deceased. The devisees and distributees filed twenty-one *328exceptions to the report, which, by consent, were referred to a referee, upon the incoming of whose report a judgment was rendered, from which the executor appealed to the Circuit Court, where, under the statute, the whole matter was heard de novo before Edward T. Farish, another referee appointed for that purpose. Both parties, the executor aud the exceptors, excepted to…