Darling v. Birney

SMITH, Acting Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree dismissing a bill, praying that an accounting be had to ascertain the *1012moneys and property received by Arthur A. Birney, as executor of the will of Gay Beatrice Spranger, deceased, and the amount which should have been paid by him as directed by said will, and further praying that a decree be entered against the defendants in favor of the plaintiffs for the sum of $36,076.67, and for other relief.

The record discloses that on April 11, 1869, one Joshua Pierce died, leaving a will in which he devised his entire estate to John B.…