Dunn v. Kenney

The plaintiffs represent that they are the heirs at law of Barney Coffey, who died in the year 1836, leaving a testament, which has been admitted to probate, containing legacies to Sarah French, alias Coffey, of one-third part of his estate, and to his two children by said Sarah French, to wit, John and Ann, each of one-third. That said legacies are void, because the deceased Barney Coffey was not married to Sarah French at the time the will was executed, but that she had a lawful husband living at the time, to the knowledge of said Barney, to wit, one Peter Haney, from whom she eloped many…