Marshall v. Sears' Ex'or

In the year 1875, Charles E. Sears and Virgil O. Sears, executors of Edward Sears, deceased, filed their hill in the circuit court of the county of Northampton, seeking to set aside four several bills of sale executed by William J. Marshall to Samuel A. Lewis, and thereupon such proceedings were had that, at February term, 1877, a decree was rendered declaring the said hills of sale fraudulent and void, and directing Leonard J. Not*50tingham, sheriff of the county, to take possession of and sell the four vessels named in the pretended bills of sale. During the progress of the cause the court…