Young v. Smith
Supreme Court of the United States
ON appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the southern district of Alabama. This case was before the Court, on a motion to dismiss the appeal; the decree of the Circuit'Court of. Alabama, being, as was contended by Mi’. Sergeant, for the appellees, an interlocutory, and not a final- decree.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Story
This is an appeal from the decree of the Circuit Court of the Southern District of Alabama, in a suit in equity; and the only question now submitted for our consideration is whether the decree in the case is a final decree, in the sense of the acts of Congress of the 24th of September, 1789, ch. 20, sec. 22; and the act of 3d of March, 1803, ch. 93; from which an appeal lies to this-Court.
The original bill was brought by the plaintiffs, (now appel lants,) against the appellees, as executors of John Parks, to recover their respective proportions as residuary legatees- of the personal estate of…
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