Watkins v. Dorsett
High Court of Chancery of Maryland
This bill was filed on the 29th of January 1827, by Samuel Watkins, Augustus Watkins, Charles Watkins, Ann Watkins, Jane Watkins, find Eliza Watkins, infants, by Benjamin Watkins their next friefid, against Thomas J. Dorsett. The bill states, that Samuel ifr.
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This bill was filed on the 29th of January 1827, by Samuel Watkins, Augustus Watkins, Charles Watkins, Ann Watkins, Jane Watkins, find Eliza Watkins, infants, by Benjamin Watkins their next friefid, against Thomas J. Dorsett. The bill states, that Samuel ifr. Clagett, by his will, made on the 21st of July 1815,. bequeathe appointed after, and gd certain negro slaves to the infant plaintiffs, and Walter Clagett his executor; that Samuel died soon Walter, having taken upon himself the office of executor,, returned s n inventory of his testator’s personal estate on the 3d of June 1817; and on…
1Opinion of the Court
Bland, Chancellor.
This case standing ready for hearing, the solicitors of the parties were fully heard and the proceedings read and considered.
The object of this bill is not to repel a claim made by the executor of Walter Clagett against these plaintiffs ; but to restrain the defendant, as administrator de bonis non of Samuel W. Clagett, from officiously making sale of that which had been the property of his testator, (but which had, long since, been legally delivered over to .these plaintiffs to whom it had been bequeathed,) for the purpose of paying the claim, which Walter, by reason of his…
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