Gleaves v. Morrow

The Chancellor :

— This case comes before me upon ten exceptions to the answer of the executors of E. R. Pennebaker, deceased, all of which were overruled by the master, and no one of which, I am sorry to say, would, if sustained, be of the slightest benefit to the complainant. The transactions and conversations are charged by the bill to have been had by the complainant with the respondents’ testator, and they are of such a character as to make it morally certain his executors would have neither knowledge, information, nor belief on the subject. Under these circumstances the complainant must…