Armstrong v. Lear

This cause was formerly before the court, and the decision then had is reported in 12 Wheat. R. 169. The bill is now substantially the same with the former bill, except that there is an allegation that the instrument set forth as a testamentary instrument, executed at Paris on the 28th of June 1826, in favour of the plaintiff, “ has been admitted to probate, and duly proved in the orphan’s court of Washington county,” in this district. But the bill does not go on to state that it has been duly established by that as a valid will, according tó the law of France, though that is averred to be…