Maraghey v. Tarpey

This bill for a declaratory decree filed by three of four residuary legatees under the will of Bernard Maraghey laid claim to a $2,000 fund held in escrow by three attorneys, two of whom were named as defendants. The fourth residuary legatee, Veronica M. Tarpey, was dead, and the administrator of her estate was named as a defendant with the recital that the administrator claimed the fund adversely by virtue of an assigned mortgage debt secured by a mortgage of real estate of the plaintiffs’ testator. It was alleged that the parties had agreed to the sale of the real estate and the placing in…