Hunt v. Hamilton

The Chief Justice

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

After the lapse of about thirty years from the death of Joseph Thompson, Uel Hunt and his wife, who claims to be one of the decedent’s children, filed a bill in chancery against his administratrix, and the representatives of her sureties, and against others as his children, praying for a decree establishing, as his last will, a paper alleged to be a perfect copy of a last will duly published by him, and casually, lost since his death by one of the subscribing witnesses, with whom he had deposited it for safe keeping; and whereby, as…