Caldwell's Executors v. Kinkead

The appellants, as the executors of Jam.es Caldwell, deceased, urge, on a multitude of grounds, the reversal of sundry distributive decrees rendered against them, in favor of the executors and some of the legatees of William Caldwell, deceased, and of the legatees also of the said testator, James, in a suit in Chancery, in which the said executors and legatees of the testator, William, were complainants, and all the other parties were made defendants.

Of the various errors alleged in a voluminous assignment, we deem it necessary to notice specially the following only:

I. The principle object of…