Succession of Fox

The petitioner sues to recover of the estate of Ber*300nard Fox the sum of thirteen hundred and twenty dollars, which he alleges is due to him for his services as a laborer and drayman for two years preceding the death of Fox, according to an account annexed to his petition. After an exception touching the sufficiency of the petition, which we think was correctly overruled, the respondent answered to the inerts, by denying any settlement of accounts between the deceased and the petitioner, admitting her quality of executrix, and generally denying the facts and allegations in the petition.

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