Glover v. Patten
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE. COURT OF APPEALS OF TUE DISTRICT OF Columbia.- This, was a bill in equity filed in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, by Mary E. Patten, Josephiné A. Patten, Edith Patten antb Helen Patten, against their sister, Augusta P. Glover, wife of John M. Glover, in ;aid' of the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court as an orphans’ court, to construe the will of their mother, Anastasia Patten, and to charge the estate with certain claims of the complainants…
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APPEAL FROM THE. COURT OF APPEALS OF TUE DISTRICT OF Columbia.- This, was a bill in equity filed in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, by Mary E. Patten, Josephiné A. Patten, Edith Patten antb Helen Patten, against their sister, Augusta P. Glover, wife of John M. Glover, in ;aid' of the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court as an orphans’ court, to construe the will of their mother, Anastasia Patten, and to charge the estate with certain claims of the complainants prior to a general distribution of the assets. The facts of the case are substantially as follows : Complainants and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
The object of this bill is to determine certain questions in aid of another branch of the same court, sitting as an orphans” court, and already in possession of a petition by the complainants to establish an indebtedness against the estate of their mother, action upon which petition was suspended by that branch of the.court, awaiting the determination of these questions. '
The theory of the complainants is that the amount of Mrs.' Patten’s indebtedness to her daughters was adjusted and settled by mutual agreement of the parties, evidenced by the instrument of September, 1885, at the sum of…
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