Grimball v. Cruse
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Madison. Heard before the Hon. N. S. Graham. This is a branch of the case of Oriinball v. Patton, reported in this volume.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Madison. Heard before the Hon. N. S. Graham. This is a branch of the case of Oriinball v. Patton, reported in this volume. The original bill in the cause was filed on the 8th December, 1877, by"Samuel B. Cruse, as trustee of the estate of Mrs. Kate Grimball, deceased, held by her under the provisions of the will of her deceased father, Dr. David Moore, against her surviving husband, John Grimball, who had taken out letters of administration on her estate in the proper court in New York city, where she died; and against John L. Bison, as administrator of her…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
Grimball and Moore severally filed exceptions, *539in some of which Bison, the administrator, 'joined. They also moved to vacate and set aside certain parts of the decretal order of reference.' The assignments of error here question the correctness of' certain parts of the decretal order, the findings of the special register, and . the final decree of the chancellor.on the register’s ""report. They are all reducible to three subjects of inquiry, and what we have to say will be confined to those three subjects.
In the condition in which Mrs. G-rimball’s estate was left at her death, and the…
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