Houts v. Shepherd

This suit was instituted in the Johnson county circuit court by plaintiffs as residuary legatees under the will of Charles Houts, their father, against defendant, as executor of the estate, to set aside for fraud his annual and final settlements, and praying for a true accounting of *142tlie assets of said estate. The defendant in his answer denies all fraud in the settlements attacked, pleads the statute of limitations, and sets up that upon a settlement with plaintiffs, he received from each of them a full acquittance of all claims which they, or either of them, had or might have against…