Bristol v. Washington County
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA. This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court for the District of Minnesota, allowing a claim in favor of Washington County, Minnesota, against the estate of Sophia M. Bristol,, deceased. Sophia M. Bristol died testate, naming James Bristol as her executor, and her will was duly admitted to probate in Wyoming County, State of New York, where said James and Sophia M. resided.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA. This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court for the District of Minnesota, allowing a claim in favor of Washington County, Minnesota, against the estate of Sophia M. Bristol,, deceased. Sophia M. Bristol died testate, naming James Bristol as her executor, and her will was duly admitted to probate in Wyoming County, State of New York, where said James and Sophia M. resided. Thereafter Mr. Bristol applied to the Probate Court of the County of Ramsay, State of Minnesota, for the admission of the will to…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
The judgment amounted in effect to the allowance of the claim payable in due course of administration out of assets of the estate within the jurisdiction of the probate court. This, was so notwithstanding the domicil of the testatrix and of her executor was in the State of New York; that that was the place of principal administration; ancl that the person charged therewith was the same. Aspden v. Nixon, 4 How. 467; Johnson v. Powers, 139 U. S. 156, 159.
Our jurisdiction by direct appeal is invoked on the ground that the application of the Constitution of the United States was involved, and…
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