Stockman v. Fagan

MARTIN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree of the lower court dismissing appellant’s bill of complaint seeking equitable relief, on the ground that appellant had a plain, adequate, and complete remedy at law.

The appellant as plaintiff below filed a bill of complaint in which she alleged .in substance as follows, to wit: That on April 23, 1924, one Charles Smith, a resident of the District of Columbia, departed this life, leaving a paper writing purporting to be his last will and testament, but that the instrument was denied probate, and plaintiff was appointed administratrix of his…