TAYLOR ET AL. v. BENHAM


46 U.S. 233 (____)

5 How. 233

WILLIAM TAYLOR, GEORGE TAYLOR, WILLIAM PRIMROSE, AND ELIZA, HIS WIFE, GEORGE PORTER, AND ELSPET, HIS WIFE, WILLIAM RAINEY, ALEXANDER RAINEY, AND ELIZABETH RAINEY, COMPLAINANTS AND APPELLANTS, v. VINCENT M. BENHAM, ADMINISTRATOR DE BONIS NON, WITH THE WILL ANNEXED, OF SAMUEL SAVAGE, DECEASED, RESPONDENT AND APPELLEE. VINCENT M. BENHAM, &c., v. GEORGE TAYLOR, &c.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Morehead and Mr. Sergeant, for Savage's administrator, and by Mr. Crittenden and Mr. Berrien, for Taylor, &c.


Mr. Justice WOODBURY delivered the opinion of the court.

The original proceeding in this case was a bill in equity. The complainants are heirs and devisees of William F. Taylor, being aliens and resident in Scotland. He was a naturalized citizen of South Carolina. The respondent was George M. Savage of Alabama, prosecuted there as executor of Samuel Savage of that State. The claim set up in the bill was, that William F. Taylor...

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