Chancery Court at Knoxville -- March Rules, 1840, John Goss, vs. William Hansard and others. It appearing from the affidavit of John Chiles that Lindley Hill, one of the Respondents in this cause is not a resident citizen of this State, it is therefore ordered that publication be made for four successive weeks in the Knoxville Register, requiring the said Lindley Hill to appear at the next term of the Court to be held on the 1st Monday of April, next, to plead, answer or demur to said bill or judgment. . .

The bill filed in this cause states in substance that a certain James Hill, late of Anderson County, departed this life sometime in the summer of 1826, leaving a last will and testament by which complainant and a certain Mastin Hill were appointed Executors -- that the said Executors were qualified and took upon themselves the execution of said Will -- that the said Mastin Hill, after having collected a portion of the money belonging to the estate of the said James Hill, failed to pay it over or account for it to the heirs and distributes of the said James -- in consequence of which suit was brought against complainant by the heirs and distributes and a judgment recovered against him for something over four hundred dollars which he has since paid.

Bill states that Mastin Hill has since died and his personal estate exhausted and prays that an account be taken and that the real estate of which the said Mastin died, seized and possessed, be sold to reimburse complainant the money he has been compelled to pay in consequence of the delinquency and default of the said Mastin Hill, his co-executors and for general relief. . .

Source: Knoxville Register, Wednesday, March 18, 1840

Transcribed by Robert McGinnis and used with his permission.