Payne v. Hook
Supreme Court of the United States
Ann Payne, a citizen of Virginia, exhibited her bill in. the Circuit Court of the United States for Missouri, against Zadoe Hook, public administrator of Calloway County, in. that State, and his sureties on his official bond, all citizens of Missouri, to obtain her distributive share in the estate of her brother, Fielding Curtis, who died intestate, in 1861, and whose ■ estate was committed to the charge of the public administrator, by order of the County Court of Calloway…
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Ann Payne, a citizen of Virginia, exhibited her bill in. the Circuit Court of the United States for Missouri, against Zadoe Hook, public administrator of Calloway County, in. that State, and his sureties on his official bond, all citizens of Missouri, to obtain her distributive share in the estate of her brother, Fielding Curtis, who died intestate, in 1861, and whose ■ estate was committed to the charge of the public administrator, by order of the County Court of Calloway County. It appeared that Curtis never 'married, and that his nearest of kin were entitled to distribution of his estate.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Davis
Theijurisdiction of the Circuit Court for Missouri to hear this cause is denied, because, in that State, exclusive jurisdiction over all disputes concerning the duties or accounts of administrators, until final settlement, is given to the local county court, which, is the Court of Probate; and as the administration complained' of is still in progress in the County Court of Calloway County, resort must be had to that court to correct the errors and frauds in the accounts of the administrator.
The theory of the position is this: that a Federal court of chancery, sitting in Missouri, will not…
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