Bradford v. Watson

The appellants brought suit for an accounting by an administratrix of a decedent’s estate and to require the administratrix and her bondsmen to pay any balance found to be due to them as the children of the decedent. Among other matters the answer of two of the defendants contained the following:

“2½. These defendants further answering the second paragraph of the said bill, say, that on the 17th day of February, A. D. 1872, the Governor of the State of Florida approved an Act, theretofore passed by the Legislature of the State of Florida, wherein and .whereby it was provided as follows,…