Harding v. Shepard

Some time in the fall of 1866 Charles W. Ricketson died testate, at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he then resided, and letters of administration, with the will annexed, were shortly after his death issued there on his estate to William Phillips, who qualified as such, and assumed the office and trust of administrator. Ricketson having left property in this State subject to the payment of his debts here, Benjamin F. Quimby, on or about the 5th day of August, 1867, applied to the county court of Cook county for letters of administration on his estate, which were issued to him on the seventh…