Hill v. Mitchell

These are somewhat remarkable cases. The complainant in the original bill is administrator of Charles R. Mitchell, a former resident in Kent county in this State, who died in February, 1873, intestate. By the bill which makes Mary C. [Mitchell and Samuel C. Chesney defendants, he avers that his intestate died seized of a certain forty acres of land in Kent county of the value of sixteen hundred dollars, and covered with pine timber; that the intestate owed several hundred dollars of debts and had no personal or other property from *391which they might be paid except the land aforesaid; that Peter…