Patterson v. McLaughlin
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia
In chancery. .This was a motion [by Benjamin Patterson] to discharge the ne exeat and certain chancery attachments, and for restoration of certain goods delivered by Holliday & Allen, to the marshal, under the condition of the order for a ne exeat. The bill states that Charles McLaughlin, late of Georgetown, deceased, was indebted to the plaintiff in nine hundred and ninety-two dollars and upwards, which sum yet remains due and unpaid.
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In chancery. .This was a motion [by Benjamin Patterson] to discharge the ne exeat and certain chancery attachments, and for restoration of certain goods delivered by Holliday & Allen, to the marshal, under the condition of the order for a ne exeat. The bill states that Charles McLaughlin, late of Georgetown, deceased, was indebted to the plaintiff in nine hundred and ninety-two dollars and upwards, which sum yet remains due and unpaid. That the defendant Peggy McLaughlin, obtained letters of administration on his estate, from the orphans’ court, in the county of Washington, in this district.…
1Opinion of the Court
CRANCII, Chief Judge (DUCKETT, Circuit Judge, absent).
The facts which give jurisdiction to this court in the present case are: That the complainant is a creditor of the deceased, residing in the District of Columbia. That letters of administration have been granted to the defendant, Peggy McLaughlin, by the orphans’ court of Washington. That the only sureties for her faithful administration of the estate reside in Baltimore, in Maryland, and out of the *1328reach of the civil authority of this district That the administratrix, Peggy McLaughlin, was about to remove with the effects of her deceased…
2Cited by1 opinion
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