Gaines v. Agnelly

BRADLEY, Circuit Justice.

The complainant [Myra Clark Gaines] excepts to the answer of the defendants in this case for insufficiency. She complains that they have not to the best of their knowledge, information, remembrance and belief answered and set forth the matters required to be answered by the bill, especially those which were called for by the special interrogatories annexed to the bill.

The complainant claims certain lands, mostly in the city of New Orleans, which.she alleges were the property of Daniel Clark at the time of his decease in 1813, were by him devised to her by a will dated…