Harris v. . Ely

It was clearly proven that the receipt was not given upon any adjustment of accounts between the executors and the legatee. No payment beyond a nominal one is expressed, and none is pretended to have been made at the time it was given. At the best, it was only an acknowledgment by a parol writing that the executor had not at that time anything in his hands, as executor, belonging to Mrs. Thomas as legatee. The paper does not profess to be an admission that the executor had fully administered the estate of the testator, but only that he had accounted for all the moneys which had come to his…