Knight v. Donahoo's heirs

Petition eor a .Ré-hearinG,

By Messrs. Morehead & Beed.

We venture to recall the attention of the Court to this cáse, with the assurance that it has been only after the *278most deliberate and confirmed conviction, that our clients have not received the law of their case, that we have gained our own consent to do so.

Benjamin Donahoo died in 1835, without will,-leaving several.children, a part the fruits of his first marriage, and three of them by his second wife, Elizabeth. The decedent also left certain parcels of real estate, and three slaves. The plaintiffs here intermarried with two of his…