Overby v. Gordon
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OE APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The proceedings under review originated in the.Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, by the filing in that court, on January 23, 1896, of a petition on behalf of Mrs. Gordon, the appellee herein.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OE APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The proceedings under review originated in the.Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, by the filing in that court, on January 23, 1896, of a petition on behalf of Mrs. Gordon, the appellee herein. The object of the petition was to obtain the probate, as the last will and testament of Hugh A. Haralson, of a paper purporting to have been executed by Haralson, a copy of which is set out in the margin hereof,1 and to obtain a grant of letters of administration thereon, with the will annexed. It was averred that Haralson, alt the time…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice "White,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
Counsel for defendant in error urge in their brief an objection to the jurisdiction of this court, which we shall first consider and dispose of.
It is claimed that the writ of error should be dismissed “ because the interests of the plaintiffs in error in respect of the judgment of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, to which said writ of error was directed, are several, and the matter in dispute, exclusive of costs, as to no one of the said plaintiffs in error, exceeds the sum or value of…
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