Shippee v. Shippee

The bill originally filed in this cause by Mr. Shippee, named as defendant no one but himself in his capacity as executor of the wills of his two sisters. When this transpired, the court refused to proceed on the ground that no suit was pending. It takes two to make a law suit. The bill was then amended to join the State of New Jersey as defendant, but Mr. Shippee still appears on both sides of the fence. "It is clear that a man cannot, in his individual capacity, sue himself in his capacity as executor. Can he, in his individual capacity, sue himself and two others as executors of a will; or…