Fletcher's Administrator v. Sanders

John Bartlet having, by his last will, published in the year 1813, devised to his wife Margaretta, after the payment of his debts, all his estate, consisting chiefly of his joint stock in the mercantile firm of Bartlet & Cox, in the city of New Orleans, and of about seven thousand dollars on deposite in a bank at Cincinnati in Ohio, and of some household furniture in Kentucky, and having died early in the year 1814, in the said city of New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana, where he was then domiciled — Joseph H. Hawkins and Lewis Sanders, of the city of Lexington, (who, together with Samuel…