M'Cormick v. Malin

This was a suit in chancery by John McCormick against Joseph Malin and others.

The bill of complaint and amendment thereof, stripped of superfluous matter, state in effect as follows, viz.

James Ferguson, late of Maryland, deceased, by his last will and testament, bequeathed to the complainant a portion of a very large estate — which portion the complainant believed amounted to a sum between 14,000' and 20,000 dollars, on the final settlement of the estate. John Kennedy, Hugh Kennedy, and John McCurdy were the executors.

The complainant had impaired the faculties of his mind, and disqualified…