Succession of Pipkin

By the court:

Dunbar, J.

This is a controversy between the heirs and legatees of Isaac Pipkin, deceased, and his executor, T. J. Pipkin, as to the settlement of his accounts in his capacity of executor.

The testator, Isaac Pipkin, who was the. owner of a number of slaves, valued, after his death, in the inventory of his estate, at near thirty thousand dollars, died in New Orleans, in the year 1850, having made two wills or testaments, in which he gives and bequeathes to his wife and daughter, the opponents and appellants in this case, all the estate, with the exception of a female slave named…