Wilkins v. Ellett
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the Western District of Tennessee; the case was this: Quarles being domiciled in the State of Alabama, died there, and letters of administration were there taken out by one Goodloe, of that State. Wilkins, a resident of Memphis, Tennessee, owed the estate $3455, and being called upon at Memphis by Goodloe, the administrator, paid the debt and took a receipt. Goodloe duly accounted before the Probate Court in Alabama for the sum thus received.
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Error to the Circuit Court for the Western District of Tennessee; the case was this: Quarles being domiciled in the State of Alabama, died there, and letters of administration were there taken out by one Goodloe, of that State. Wilkins, a resident of Memphis, Tennessee, owed the estate $3455, and being called upon at Memphis by Goodloe, the administrator, paid the debt and took a receipt. Goodloe duly accounted before the Probate Court in Alabama for the sum thus received. Afterwards, Ellett, a citizen of the State of Virginia, and who professed to be next of kin to the deceased, took out…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
It has long been settled, and is a principle of universal jurisprudence, in afl civilized nations, that the personal estate of the deceased is to be regarded, for the purposes of succession and distribution, wherever situated, as having no other locality than that of his domicilii; and, if he dies intestate, the succession is governed by the law of the place where he was domiciled at the time of his decease, and not by the conflicting laws of the various places where the property happened at the time to be situated. * The original administrator, therefore, with letters taken out at the place…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Vroom v. Van HorneNew York Court of Chancery · 1844
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