Harding v. Le Moyne

It appears from the record before us that Charles W. Ricketson died testate October 4, 1866, leaving Polly, his widow, and Lizzie, his only child, sole devisees under his will. At the time of his death he was the owner, subject to a vendor’s lien for a part of the unpaid purchase money, of the undivided half of the west half of section 3, town 38, range 13, and also of the undivided half of so much of the east half of the same section as lies south of the canal. Henry M. Shepard having been appointed administrator de bonis non with the will annexed, on the 17th of June, 1870, filed in the…