Harper v. Corcoran

The complainant filed his bill as administrator against defendant for an accounting and an injunction restraining him from disposing of any property in his hands belonging to the estate of Catherine Corcoran, deceased. The theory of complainant was that defendant who had been married to deceased, and lived with her as her husband several years, had taken practically all of the property belonging to her, and refused to account for it to complainant. Deceased was an illiterate person, who could neither read nor write her name. She had some land, given to her by her uncle, which she sold for…