Manuel v. Manuel
Ohio Supreme Court
In CHANCERY. — Reserved in the district court of Franklin county. The complainants filed their bill in chancery in the court of common pleas of Hamilton county, July 26, 1850, as the heirs at law of Thomas Manuel, deceased, against the defendant, Robert Manuel, setting forth that at the November term, 1849, of said court, a paper, purporting to be a copy of the last will and testament of said Thomas Manuel, deceased, admitted to probate in the fifth district court of New…
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In CHANCERY. — Reserved in the district court of Franklin county. The complainants filed their bill in chancery in the court of common pleas of Hamilton county, July 26, 1850, as the heirs at law of Thomas Manuel, deceased, against the defendant, Robert Manuel, setting forth that at the November term, 1849, of said court, a paper, purporting to be a copy of the last will and testament of said Thomas Manuel, deceased, admitted to probate in the fifth district court of New Orleans, on the 22d day of August, 1848, was admitted to record in said court of common pleas of Hamilton county, where it…
1Opinion of the CourtScott, J.
In regard to real éstate, it is clear that the law, which governs its descent, is that of the jurisdiction within which it is situated. And it is equally well settled, that it is the law of the country where the deceased was .domiciled, at the time of his death, which regulates the succession of his personalty, in case of intestacy. From this it results, as a reasonable consequence, that the laws of the same country must determine whether there is an intestacy in any given case ; or in other words, the same law governs the succession both in cases of testacy and of intestacy. Hence, the rule…
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