Cotterell v. Brock

TW Surrogate.

Thomas Cotterell, of the city of Lon-don, filed his petition for the removal of Rebecca Brock, the executrix, on the ground that her circumstances are so precarious, as not to afford adequate security for the due administration of the estate, and that there is just reason to apprehend she is about to remove from the State. On the return of the citation, the executrix appeared and presented affidavits in reply to the allegations of the petitioner, and without taking any testimony, except a letter of the deceased, the case was submitted upon the papers, after argument.

The petition…