Jane v. Vick
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the southern district of Mississippi, sitting as a court, of equity. . The case was this.
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This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the southern district of Mississippi, sitting as a court, of equity. . The case was this. In 1819, Newit- .Vick, a citizen of the state of Mississippi, died, leaving a wife and th'e-following children: Sons. — Harwell Vick, John Westley Vick, William Vick, Newit H. Vick. . Daughters. — Nancy, Sarah,- Mary, Eliza, Lucy, Matilda, Amanda, Martha, Emily. ' .The wife, however, died in few minutes after her husband: In .October, 1.819, the will of the deceased was admitted to pro* bate in the Orphan’s Court of Warren county, and was…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mc-LEAN
This case is brought here by an appeal from the decree of the Circuit. Court for the district of Mississippi.
The complainants- under the will of Newit Vick, late of the state -of Mississippi, deceased, claim certain interests in .a tract of two hundred acres of land, on which the .town of Vicksburg is laid off. In the bill various proeeédings are stated as to the proof of the will, the qualification of one of the executors, named in it, the death of the executrix, and the refusal of one of the executors named to qualify ; that the executor who -qualified ,Was afterwards removed, with his…
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