Thurston v. McLellan
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the complainant from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, sitting as an equity court, dismissing a bill to establish the right of the complainant to a fund in the hands of certain of the defendants, executors of a decedent’s estate, and to vacate as fraudulent a transfer of an assignment of the claim. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Shepard
Henry W. Thurston appeals from a decree dismissing a bill filed by him against Francis B. Clark and Charles W, Mc-Lellan, residents of the State of New York, and Henry F. Woodward and Mabel Grace McKay, residents of the District of Columbia. Woodward and Mabel Grace McKay are sued as executors of the estate of Nathaniel McKay, deceased, whose will was probated in the supreme court of said District.
Substantially, the bill alleges that complainant, having a claim of $41,211.69 against the estate of Nathaniel McKay, and living then in Georgia, gave a power of attorney to Clark to collect the…
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