Betts v. Wirt

The Chancellor:

This case is submitted to the Court upon exceptions to the report of the Auditor by -which the residue of the proceeds of the sale of the real estate in the proceedings mentioned, was assigned to the heirs at law of Annie Mercer, and not as the acceptants insist it should have been, to her personal representatives, and through them to her next of tin, under our statute of distributions.

The land sold was the property of William D. Mercer, deceased, and upon his death intestate descended to Annie Mercer, his infant child and only heir at law. The personal estate of the father…