Davidson v. Young

David L. W. Jones died in 1834, intestate, and seized in fee of seventy-seven acres of land near Chicago. He left a widow, Frances, who afterwards intermarried with Seth Paine, and a daughter, Margaret, two years of age, who afterwards became the wife of Timothy E. Young, appellees herein. One Whitlock was appointed, in 1835, administrator of the estate of Jones. During his administration the Legislature, in December, 1836, passed a special act authorizing the administrator to sell the real estate of the deceased and apply the proceeds to the liquidation of his debts, and invest the residue…