Shelden v. Walbridge

The bill in this case is filed by complainants as creditors who have proved a claim against the estate of Lafayette Brown, deceased, which is under settlement in the probate court of Clinton county. The bill, which is *252sworn to merely on information and belief, and contains no important facts verified on the merits, avers that Walbridge as administrator took possession of some chattels and collected some debts, and that decedent had a stock of goods worth about one thousand dollars, on which his widow, who is a co-defendant, claimed to hold a mortgage under which she sold the goods by…