Heward v. Slagle

The appellant, a daughter and one of the heirs-at-law of Nathan Dillon, of Tazewell county, deceased, who died on the twenty-eighth of January, 1863, not satisfied with the final settlement of the estate of her father by his administrators, Mary Dillon, her mother, and Henry Slagle, her brother-in-law, appealed from the order of the county court approving the settlement, discharging the administrators, and directing distribution of the small amount claimed to be all that was remaining, out of a large estate not owing a dollar, and on which no necessity whatever existed for administration,…