McGuire v. Maloney

Judge Marshall

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This was an action of trover, brought by John Maloney against McGuire, who, as administrator of John Maloney, Sr. the plaintiff’s father, had sold divers goods and chattels, as belonging to the estate of the decedent, but which the plaintiff claims to have been his property, under an instrument of writing purporting to have been executed by his father and himself, in the presenpe of two subscribing witnesses, and to transfer to him the property in question.

To prove the execution óf this instrument, the plaintiff introduced his mother, the widow…