Ex parte Murray

Edwin Murray filed a petition for a monition to perfect a sale made by the Court of Probates. Hannah B. Sew-all, and Charlotte Eastman, heirs of John O. Sewall, are appellants from a judgment in his favor. They oppose his pretensions on several grounds. It is useless to examine any but the seventh, which is, that the sale took place before the expiration of the usual delays, without the legal advertisements being made, and not according to the terms stated in the order. The opponent having denied that the legal advertisements had been made, the onus probandi devolved on the petitioner, who…