Courtney v. Pradt

COCHRAN, District Judge.

This is a suit by a creditor of a partnership, one of whose two members is dead, against his executor and the surviving partner, seeking to obtain payment of his debt. Both defendants are nonresidents of this state, and were so when the suit was brought. The decedent was likewise a nonresident at the time of his death, and the defendant executor was appointed and qualified as such in the state of decedent’s domicile, to wit, the state of Wisconsin. The suit was brought originally in the Powell circuit court, and has been removed to this court by the defendants on the…