Jones v. Willis
Ohio Supreme Court
Error, to the Circuit Court of Fayette county. The plaintiff in error was plaintiff in each of the lower courts, and in her amended and supplemental petition filed in the court of common pleas, asked a recovery against the defendant as administrator of the estate of William. E. Willis on an account to be taken according to tbe averments of tbe petition.
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Error, to the Circuit Court of Fayette county. The plaintiff in error was plaintiff in each of the lower courts, and in her amended and supplemental petition filed in the court of common pleas, asked a recovery against the defendant as administrator of the estate of William. E. Willis on an account to be taken according to tbe averments of tbe petition. Tbe claim set up arises out of the provisions of tbe last will and testament of James M. Willis and tbe alleged wrongs and default of William E. Willis, executor of said will, who is also now deceased and of whose estate tbe defendant in error…
1Opinion of the CourtPrice, J.
The plaintiff in error, and who was plaintiff in the lower courts, was unmarried when the will of James M. Willis was executed, and she was correctly named therein as Laura B. Willis, one of the residuary legatees under said will. In addition to the facts set out in the statement of this case, her amended petition, in substance, avers that when William R. Willis, deceased, was appointed executor of the will of James M. Willis, he was indebted to the estate of the latter in the sum of about $15,000, which sum" became assets in the hands "of such executor which belonged to the estate of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Kern's Administrator v. FosterOhio Supreme Court · 1847