Seborn v. Beckwith

J OHNSON, PRESIDENT :

In 1875, the plaintiff, F. A. Seborn, executor of the last will of Willian Crabtree, filed his bill in the Circuit Court of Upshur county, against Eli B. Beckwith, and Sarah A., his wife; A. C. Howard; Charles Bayne; John S. Fisher; George W. Howard, in his own right; Walter B. Brooks, assignee in bankruptcy of George W. Howard, bankrupt ; George W. Howard, J ohn H. Cole, and Henry F. Sherman, late partners as Howard, Cole &. Co., bankrupts; and James Buckingham, assignee of Eli B. Beckwith, bankrupt.

The bill alleges that on the 20th day of July, 1860, John S. Fisher, in…