Aspden v. Nixon
Supreme Court of the United States
This case came up,-by appeal, from.the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of East Pennsylvania, sitting as a court of equity. ... The circumstances of the cáse are set forth in the following statement, which the reporter finds prefixed to the opinion of the court, and which. supersedes the necessity of any statement of his own.
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This case came up,-by appeal, from.the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of East Pennsylvania, sitting as a court of equity. ... The circumstances of the cáse are set forth in the following statement, which the reporter finds prefixed to the opinion of the court, and which. supersedes the necessity of any statement of his own. In 1791, Matthias Aspden, a subject of the king of Great Britain, and domiciled there, being, in the State of Pennsylvania, where lie had formerly resided, made his will, whereby he devised his property to his heir at law, with the exception of stime…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice CÁTRON
(after haying stated the facts of the case as they are recited in the commencement of this report) proceeded to deliver the opinion of the court.
We. understand the true question, submitted to this court to be, whether the decree dismissing the bill, made by the High Court of’ Chancery in England, bars .and precludes John A. Brown, the Pennsylvania administrate!: of John Aspden of London, from prosecuting his claim as-ndriiinistrator for the Pennsylvania assets of the estate of Mattfiiás Aspden, found in the hands of Joseph Trotter, the present administrator, with the will…
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