Snapp v. Purcell

This bill was filed to settle the estate of James L„ Purcell, and in order to do this, have an account of advancements.

As said by the Referees, there is a large amount -of irrelevant testimony taken, both by complainants and *694respondents. The only questions presented in Referees’’ report by exceptions are, first, the correctness of allowing Mathew V. Purcell to hold about fifty acres of land under a parol gift, and adverse possession.

We have carefully looked through the mass of testimony on this question, and have no doubt of the correctness of the chancellor’s decree and the report of the…