Edmonds v. Crenshaw
Supreme Court of the United States
ON appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama. The appellee, with one James M'Morris, was, by the will of Aaron Cates of South Carolina, made on the 8th day of February, 1816, and proved on the 15th of the same month, appointed executor of the will. Letters testamentary were granted to both the executors.
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ON appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama. The appellee, with one James M'Morris, was, by the will of Aaron Cates of South Carolina, made on the 8th day of February, 1816, and proved on the 15th of the same month, appointed executor of the will. Letters testamentary were granted to both the executors. The will directs the estate of the testator to be sold; and after the' payment of the debts, directs the executors to invest the residue of the proceeds of the estate in stocks, for the benefit of certain persons named in the will; and who…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr, Justice M‘Lean
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of Alabama.
The complainants, who represent themselves to be the devisees of Aaron Cates, deceased, who, on the 7th of February, 1816, made his will in which he required all his estate, both real and personal, - to be sold at public auction, by his .executors, on a credit of one, two, and three years; the purchaser to give two good freehold securities and a mortgage on the property, to secure the payments. Three bequests, of one hundred dollars each, were made to certain individuals, to one of whom he…
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