Lidderdale v. Robinson
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Virginia
This suit was brought by William Rae and Julia Lidderdale, of London, executor and executrix of William Robertson Lidder-dale, who was executor of John Lidderdale, deceased, against James Lyons, administrator de bonis non of John Robinson, deceased.
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This suit was brought by William Rae and Julia Lidderdale, of London, executor and executrix of William Robertson Lidder-dale, who was executor of John Lidderdale, deceased, against James Lyons, administrator de bonis non of John Robinson, deceased. The bill, which was filed in 1820, states, that in the year-, William Robertson Lidderdale, executor of John Lidderdale, filed his bill against Edmund Pendleton and Peter Lyons, administrators of John Robinson, deceased, claiming satisfaction for four bills of exchange drawn by John Robinson, and taken up under protest by the testator John, for…
1Opinion of the Court
MARSHALL, Circuit Justice.
The counsel for the plaintiffs, Lidderdale and Hanberry, have filed several exceptions to this report, the most important and difficult of which, respects a sum alleged by the administrator de bonis non of John Robinson, to be due to Peter Lyons, the surviving administrator of John Robinson, whose executor the said James Lyons is. The commissioner has stated this claim in different ways.
The counsel for the plaintiffs objects to this account altogether, because he alleges: (1) That it is not supported by vouchers. (2) That Peter Lyons is responsible for his…
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