Higgins v. Higgins

The Chancellor :

The merits of this controversy, as I understand them, are decidedlywith the plaintiffs, and, therefore, unless some insuperable difficulty shall be found in the legal and technical objections urged by the solicitor for the defendants, an order or decree must be passed in accordance with the prayer of the bill.

It appears by the proceedings, that a Mrs. Ann Maccauley, in November, 1812, executed her last will and testament, by which she gave and bequeathed all her property, of every description, to her friend Gideon White, in trust, for the use of her granddaughter, Ann Higgins,…