Smith v. Calloway

— The complainant in this case filed a bill in chancery, to recover from the defendant his distributive share of the estate of his deceased father Josiah Smith.

■ The bill states that Josiah Smith departed this life in the year 1805, in the county of Montgomery and state of Ohio. *87leaving Letitia Smith his widow, and Thomas Smith and the complainant his children and heirs at law; that at the gust term, 1805, of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery county, Ohio, letters of administration on the estate of said Josiah were granted to his widow Letitia; that she made an inventory of the personal…