Barbour v. Robertson's heirs

Opinion of the Court.

THE defendants in error, who were complainants in the court below, exhibited their bill, claiming to be the heirs of John Robertson, who was the heir at law of James Robertson, and alleging that James Robertson departed this life intestate, leaving considerable personal estate, and one slave, named Cæsar; that Philip Barbour, in the year 1782, administered on his estate, and received into his hands about three hundred pounds, for the services of the said James Robertson as a lieutenant in the revolutionary war, as well as for the service of negro Cæsar ; that he sold…