Succession of Morgan

The Misses Morgan, four sisters, perished in a common calamity on the twenty-eighth November, 1867. Dying intestate, and leaving neither ascendants nor descendants, their succession was claimed hy a sister, Mrs. Mary Harrod, and a brother, William H. Morgan, to the former of whom letters of administration were granted. Thomas A. Morgan, a brother of the half blood of decedents, died in 1858, leaving seven children, his heirs, whose claim to one-sixth of' this succession, hy representation, is the subject of controversy before-us. The succession is valued at about $52,000.

It is admitted that…