Pattison v. Skillman

The Chancellor.

The bill is filed to recover possession of certain papers (letters, power of attorney, receipt and written testimony of witnesses) belonging to the coimp] ain ant, and which he •alleges are of great value to him in establishing his heirship to a considerable landed estate in Ireland. It states that in or about February, 1876, the complainant’s mother delivered the papers in question to his sister and the defendant for examination ; that they examined them, and the latter took them in order to give the matter a thorough examination, and it was then •agreed by those persons that…