Lacey v. Ferguson

The plaintiff, alleging that she was a creditor of Catharine Cavanaugh, who died in this city in October, 1873, it is claimed that the defendant, Nicholas Ferguson, was at the time of the decease, her nearest living relative; that as soon as Mrs. Cavanaugh’s death became known, he proceeded, wrongfully and unlawfully, to remove her effects and dispose of the same for his own use and benefit; that he accepted unconditionally the succession of his said sister by appropriating all the property and effects of which the same was composed; that he tortiously intermeddled in the succession and…