Patterson v. Read

The Chancellor.

Charles E. Patterson and Flora Patterson, infants, by their ■next friend, filed their bill on December 20th, 1886, against Thomas H. Eead, as executor of the will of Wilson Eead, deceased, for support out of the residue of the estate of said Wilson Eead, according to the provisions of his will.

The bill was submitted to Charles H. Winfield, an able and respectable counselor of this court, who had before then been ■consulted by the defendant as to the defendant’s rights and duties as such executor. Mr. Winfield, conceiving that he had full authority to act for the defendant,…