Vance v. Campbell's Heirs

As one object of the bill filed in this case by the appel-lees, was to obtain a distribution of the personal estate of their father, and a settlement of the accounts of the personal representatives, James Campbell, the executor, was a necessary party ; and consequently, as he was not made a party, the decree against the executrix, must, for that cause, be reversed.

But it becomes our duty also to notice an error to the prejudice of the appellees.

John G. Campbell, father of the appellees, and husband of the appellant Anne, the executrix, devised to his wife his whole estate during her life or…