Danforth v. Herbert

WALKER, J.—

The purpose of the bill in this case was, to establish a trust in favor of the complainants and the defendants, in a certain negro woman Sylvia, and her increase, the legal title to which was in one of the defendants, as the administrator of John G. Finch, deceased. The case made by the bill is, that the brothers and sisters of James L. Finch deceased, as his heirs, were entitled to a tract of land; that by agreem ent' it was sold, with a view to appropriate the money arising from the sale, with the interest thereon, to the benefit of their father and mother; that Henry Finch, who…