Garden v. Riley

I wish to supplement what I have written for the Court with a brief observation on the procedure involved in initiating a claim of this sort before a commissioner of accounts. The jurisdiction of the commissioner of accounts was directly challenged at the hearing before him, and was evidently made a point in the circuit court and perhaps before the county court, since a brief in opposition to the appeal was filed in this Court by counsel for the executors in which the question was raised. The point is not stressed upon this submission. Nevertheless, and particularly in view of the…