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 IM BB COBSE. .813 �into the brick making business, which he continued to oarry on till he failed, in 1875. The counsel for contestants claims that he expended in these improvements and in the purchase of adjoining property, which was, or was thought, neoessary for carrjing on the business successfully, about $26,000, and it is insisted that ail the personal property received from the executors, together with that received from his wife's grand- father's estate, were so expended with her consent, and for the benefit of the property, L'y him as trustee. Most of this money ■was invested in these improvements before she came of age. �After Mrs. Corse came of age she executed a release of the executors under seal. It isdatedMarch 25, 1868. It recites that her father by his will gave and bequeathed to her "the equal undivided one-half of the residuary personal and real estate," and that she had intermarried with Henry Corse, Jr., and then was his wife, and had attained her majority on the first day of October, 1867, and that the executors on or about October 1, 1865, rendered an aocount and settled the estate "under the arrangements and stipulations then made and entered into by i.nd between the said executors and the residuary devisees and legatees under said will," and that the said executors did, "in pursuance of such settlement, arrange- ment and stipulation, deliver to and pay over unto the said Nancy J. Knapp her property in and share of the said estate in cash and in securities thereof." �It then proceeds as follows: "Now, therefore, I, etc., do hereby acknowledge the receipt from the said executors of the property and legacies so given and bequeathed to me in and by said will; and I do hereby acquit, release and forever dis- charge the said executors of and from ail legacies, dues and demanda whatsoever, under and by virtue of the will of the said Samuel Knapp, deceased, or to which I am or may be entitled eut of his said estate." �At the same time the bankrupt also executed a release to the executors on the same paper, as follows : "Whereas, I, Henry Corse, Jr., the husband of said Nancy -J. Corse, received from said executors of the will of Samuel Knapp, deceased, in right of my said wife, the cash, property and securities to ����