Thomas v. United States

Drake, Cb. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court:

From documents submitted to the court by the attorneys of the claimant, in support of the motion hereinafter referred to, it appears that John H. Thomas was the husband of the claimant 5 that he died on the 20th of May, 1865, leaving a will, which was admitted to probate in Chambers County, Alabama, June 26, 1865; that Mary W. Thomas was therein appointed executrix; that on the 24th of October, 1865, a duly-authenticated copy of the will and its probate was admitted to record in Yazoo County, Mississippi, and that the chancery court there…