Payne v. Brown

J. W. Brown, administrator de bonis non cum testamento annexo of John Brown, deceased, filed a bill praying for an order and decree instructing him how he was to disburse among heirs at law and legatees the proceeds of the sale by him of certain lands devised by the will of said deceased. Defendants to the petition are Mary Payne, and others, grandchildren of John Brown. Answers were hied, but the case was submitted to the judge upon an agreed statement of facts, the essential part of 'which is as follows: John Brown died leaving a will, a true copy of which is attached to the petition as an…