Sullivan v. Lawler

In October, 1878, Bhoda Lawler died, intestate; and in November, of the same year, Jehu and James H. Lawler, two of her sons, were appointed administrators of her estate. In February, 1882, this bill was filed; to which the ■chancellor sustained a demurrer, at the July-term of the court, ■and dismissed the bill. No amendment was offered in the court below. The complainants in the court below prosecute this appeal, and assign as error the decree of the chancellor dismissing the bill.

Mrs. Lawler, intestate, left many descendants — some of them ■surviving children, and others descendants of…