Morris v. Swaney

This is a bill filed in the Chancery Court at Gal-latin hy Eliza Morris and her children against the heirs at law of James L. Swaney, deceased, to have set up a will, which they allege was made and published by said Swaney, but was lost or suppressed by fraud or accident. Said Swaney was murdered by some unknown parties about the month of November, 1865. He had never been married, but left his father, and brothers, and sisters, and their issue, surviving him as his heirs and distributees.

The -complainant Elizabeth Morris was never married, but she is the mother of a number of illegitimate…