Richardson v. Richardson

This was a bill in chancery filed by appellants, four of the heirs of Dorman B. Richardson, deceased, to compel Kate Richardson, widow of the deceased, to account for and pay out of her distributive share the amount of a judgment, recovered against the estate upon two promissory notes, aggregating in amount $25,100, executed and delivered to her by the deceased in his lifetime, and after-his death assigned by her to the First Rational Bank of Shullsburg, Wis. The bill avers that the notes were executed without consideration; that they were assigned before maturity in order to cut off the…