Alexandria Gazette

A WILL CASE.—In the year 1841, Dr. Theo. B. Talmage of this city died, and shortly afterward a lawyer named Phillip Burrows presented an instrument for probate, purporting to be the last will and testament of Dr. Talmage, executed in 1839, by which he was appointed executor, and named as residuary legatee in the case of the death of the doctor's infant daughter before reaching the age of twenty-one years. The will also contained a power to sell the property in his discretion. In 1855, finding the child was likely to attain her majority Burrow, under the power given him in the will disposed of all the real estate, and retired with the proceeds to Italy, where he recently died. Meantime the daughter grew up to womanhood and married Mr. James U. Bolton of this city, and in 1862 suits were commenced in the Superior Court for the recovery of the property, on the ground that the will was fraudulent and void and that the purchase had been made by parties in collusion with Burrows. After a lapse of ten years one of these cases, which is made a test case, has at length reached trial before Justice Barbour and a jury, and to day the jury returned a verdict for plaintiff on all the issues submitted. The property involved is said to exceed half a million of dollars.—N. Y. Standard.