Sloan v. Sloan
Supreme Court of Florida
Appeal from Circuit Court for Marion county. The facts of this case, so far as necessary to an understanding of the points decided, are as follows: The appellees, Susan M. and Sallie H. Sloan, filed on ■July 5th, 1883, their bill in equity against John B. E. Sloan and William P. Hall, citizens of South Carolina, Adié E. Waterman and Summerfield M. Gf.
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Appeal from Circuit Court for Marion county. The facts of this case, so far as necessary to an understanding of the points decided, are as follows: The appellees, Susan M. and Sallie H. Sloan, filed on ■July 5th, 1883, their bill in equity against John B. E. Sloan and William P. Hall, citizens of South Carolina, Adié E. Waterman and Summerfield M. Gf. Gary, citizens •of Florida, alleging that William Sloan was, in his life time, between the years 1856 and 1862, seised in fee of a quarter section of land under a deed from one Jacob Miller, bearing date August 25, 1855, and of 461.39-100 ■acres…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Raney
The purpose of the bill in this case is the removal of a cloud upon title to real estate.
We meet at the threshhold, upon reading the record, the fact that there is a want of necessary parties. Neither the common law, the law of nations, nor _ the statutes of this State permit a suit to be maintained in our courts against an executor or administrator who has obtained his letters testamentary, or of administration from the courts of another State; or, in the language of Judge Forward, in Gordon vs. Simonton, 10 Fla., 196, “ in the absence of any statute the well settled rule is that a party…
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