Gallion v. Keegan

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Fenner, J.

A careful scrutiny of the petition filed by plaintiff in this case, satisfies us that it is an action brought by her against the administrator of the succession of her former tutor to recover judgment for an amount due her by said tutor on account of property and funds received by him in that capacity and never accounted for.

Plaintiff was the sole heir of her father, Dewitt Iverson Ellzey, who died in I860. She avers that her grandfather, Wm. Ellze.y, caused her father’s succession to be opened, and was appointed and qualified as…