Davis v. Connelly's Executors

Judge Marshall

delivered tlie opinion of the Court.

This was an action of debt, brought by Davis against Mary Connelly and Joseph C. Hughes, executors of Thomas Connelly, deceased, upon a judgment obtained against them in the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio, sitting in the county of Hamilton, in said State. The defendants pleaded, in substance, that when the suit in which the judgment had been rendered was commenced, Thomas Connelly was a resident citizen of Boone county, in this State, and lived and died there; that the defendants were appointed and qualified as his executors in said county…