Bunnel v. Stoddard
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern Ohio
[In equity. Bill by Amasa Bunnel and others, children and heirs of Lucy Bunnel, together with the administrators of certain deceased children, against Henry Stoddard and Asa P. Stoddard, to enforce a trust vested directly in Henry Stoddard, and to set aside certain conveyances in favor of Asa P. Stod-dard, which were alleged to have been procured by fraud.]
1Opinion of the Court
I. Major Amos Stoddard, of the army of the United States, died intestate and without issue in the year 1813. He left surviving him four brothers and two sisters: Philo Stoddard, Simeon Stoddard, Curtis Stoddard, and Eliakim Stoddard, and La-vinia Pierce and Lucy Bunnel. They were his only heirs-at-law. Each of them was entitled to one-sixth of his estate. The complainants, except two of the legal representatives, are the defendants and heirs-at-law of his sister, Lucy Bunnel. Major Stoddard, at the time of his death, claimed title to four hundred arpens of land, lying upon the Missouri river,…
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