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FREDERICKSON v. State of Louisiana

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided May 18, 1860PublishedCited by 15 opinions

This case was brought up from the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana, by a writ of error issued under the 25th section of the judiciary act. It involved the construction of an article of a treaty between the United States and the Kingdom of Wurtemberg,' concluded on the 10th of April, 1844, (8 Stat. at L., page 588.) The article is quoted in the syllabus, and need not be repeated.

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This case was brought up from the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana, by a writ of error issued under the 25th section of the judiciary act. It involved the construction of an article of a treaty between the United States and the Kingdom of Wurtemberg,' concluded on the 10th of April, 1844, (8 Stat. at L., page 588.) The article is quoted in the syllabus, and need not be repeated. It was admitted upon the record that Pink was a naturalized citizen of the United States at the time of his death, and residing in the city, of New Orleans; also, that the legatees reside in the Kingdom of…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Campbell

The defendant in error made opposition to the account filed in the settlement of the succession of John David Pink, deceased, in the second District Court of New Orleans, because the executor did not place on the tableau ten per cent, upon the amounts respectively allowed to certain legatees, who are subjects of the King of Wurtemberg. By a statute- of Louisiana, it is provided that “each and every• person, not being domiciliated in this State, and not being a citizen of any other State or Territory in the Union, who shall be entitled, whether as heirs,' legatee, or donee, to the whole or any…

2Cited by15 opinions

  1. Clark v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
  2. Nielsen v. JohnsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1929
  3. Todok v. Union State Bank of HarvardSupreme Court of the United States · 1930
  4. Estate of Stixrud v. StateWashington Supreme Court · 1910
  5. Petersen v. Iowa Ex Rel. State TreasurerSupreme Court of the United States · 1917

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