Parsons v. Lyman
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut
This was a motion, founded on bill and answer, in a suit in equity [by Joseph H. Parsons and others against David Lyman and others), to dismiss the bill for want of jurisdiction in the court to entertain the suit. [Prior to this a motion' had been made to have the names of certain infants interested in the suit, and who had not been made parties to it, inserted in the bill. The motion was denied. Case No. 10,779.]
1Opinion of the Court
SHIPMAN, District Judge.
On the 24th of October, 1848, Samuel Parsons, of Durham, in the state of Connecticut, died, leaving a large estate, and a last will and testament. By this will the defendants in this bill were appointed his executors. They *1264-qualified and proceeded to settle the estate in the court of probate for the district of Middletown, that tribunal, under the law of ■Connecticut, having exclusive original juris•diction thereof. The settlement of the estate, ■so far as that court had exclusive jurisdiction, was substantially completed on the 20th of November, 1849, by the…
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