Kirkpatrick v. Kirkpatrick

This bill involves the title to and ownership of two portraits, one of Colonel John Bayard, of Revolutionary fame, and the other of his wife, Margaret Hodges Bayard, by the famous artist, Charles Willson Peale, and seeks an accounting by the defendant John Bayard Kirkpatrick, Jr., of the proceeds of the sale of said portraits.

The portraits in question became the property of the decedent, J. Bayard Kirkpatrick, Sr., under the will of Mary Ann K. How in July, 1887, and they hung upon the walls of the dining room in the Kirkpatrick home in New Brunswick from that time up to the time of his death…