Blanchard v. Williamson

Appellee exhibited her bill in the circuit court of Knox county, on the sixth day of December, 1872, the object of which was to compel appellant, who was executrix of Mary Gardner, deceased, to pay her the amount of a certain promissory note, alleged to have been made by the decedent.

It is charged, that a large amount of assets came to the hands of appellant, as executrix, which she failed to cause to be inventoried as the law directs, and it is sought to compel the payment of the alleged indebtedness out of the uninventoried assets.

The record presents a rather singular state of facts. The…