I found this interesting bit of information about the will of William Cottrill:
"Ragland died in Mobile, Alabama, in April, 1872, being at the time a resident of Virginia; and he left a large estate, partly in Virginia, and partly in Alabama. Pegram, the complainant in this suit, was nominated as executor in said Ragland's will, and he duly qualified as executor under the laws of Virginia; while letters of administration on the estate in Alabama were granted by the Probate Court in Mobile, in June, 1872, to Fred. Hall, who thereupon gave an administration bond, with William Cottrill, Thomas J. Riley, N. W. Perry, and Jacob Magee, as his sureties. On the 28th August, 1886, Hall made a final settlement of his accounts as administrator, in the Probate Court of Mobile, by which a balance of $4,261.21 was ascertained and decreed in his favor; but a bill in equity was afterwards filed by Pegram, as executor, in the Chancery Court of Mobile, to correct alleged errors of law and fact in that settlement; and by the decree of the Chancery Court, which was affirmed by this court on appeal, in January, 1889, a decree for $8,246.64 was rendered in favor of the complainant against said Hall. Thomas J. Riley, one of the sureties on Hall's administration bond, died, intestate, on the 12th December, 1883, leaving a considerable estate, which passed into the possession of the defendants to this suit, by legal succession from him; andWilliam Cottrill, another one of the sureties, died on the 12th February, 1887, leaving a considerable estate. On the 25th April, 1888, after the rendition of said chancery decree, but before its affirmance by this court on appeal, Pegram, as executor, filed a bill in the Chancery Court at Mobile, against the heirs and personal representatives of Cottrill, to enforce payment of said decree against Hall, out of the property belonging to Cottrill's estate;"
