Ennis v. Smith

The purpose of this suit is to recover for the descendants of the sistérs of General Kosciusko, the funds which he owned in the United States at the time of his death.

Several points are suggested by the pleadings.

We. will consider such of them as we think necessary, after having stated the origin' of the fund in controversy, and the management of it, from the time that Kosciusko placed it under the care of Mr. Jefferson until the- death of Colonel Bomford, the administrator de bonis non, in eighteen hundred and forty-eight.

General Kosciusko came, to the United States early in our…