Lacy v. Ferguson

His Honor Judge Walter H. Rogers,

rendered the opinion and decree of the court in the words and figures following, to wit;

The plaintiff alleges that she was a creditor of Catherine Cavanaugh, who died in the city in October 1873; it is claimed that the defendant, Nicholas Ferguson, was at the time of the decease her nearest living relative; that as soon as Mrs. Cavanaugh’s death became known he proceeded wrongfully and unlawfully to remove her effects and dispose of the same for his own use and benefit; that he accepted unconditionally the succession of his dead sister by appropriating all the…