Russ v. Russ
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided at Marianna. Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. The following statement of the facts of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Forward : The bill of complaint in this cause is filed by Martha J. Buss, called in the will, hereinafter inserted, Mary Jane Buss, a minor, by her next friend, against Joseph W. Buss, as administrator of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements, rights and credits of Margaret Belle Buss, deceased, and Henry Humphreys and his…
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This case was decided at Marianna. Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. The following statement of the facts of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Forward : The bill of complaint in this cause is filed by Martha J. Buss, called in the will, hereinafter inserted, Mary Jane Buss, a minor, by her next friend, against Joseph W. Buss, as administrator of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements, rights and credits of Margaret Belle Buss, deceased, and Henry Humphreys and his wife Mary E. Humphreys. The bill sets forth that Joseph Buss, the grandfather of oratrix, departed this life in Jackson…
1Opinion of the Court
FORWARD, J.,
after reading the stafement of the ''-ase prepared hy him, proceeded to deliver the opinion of the Court.
From the statement of the case, it will be seen that the complainant, who is a grand-child of the testator and the daughter of Wm. II. L. Euss, a son of the testator, who died in tlio lifetime of the testator and before his will was made, and who is the same person provided for in the eJeveuiJi clause of the will, where she is called “Mary Jane Euss," claims to he entitled as one of tbe next of kin to a distributive share in the estate which Margaret B. Russ took under the will…
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