Cunningham v. Rodgers

MORROW, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, alleging himself to be of Rockland, county of Knox, in the state of Maine, administrator of the estate of Henry H. Cunningham, of Belfast, Me., brought suit in the United States Court for China at Shanghai against the appellee as Consul General at Shanghai, China, to recover the sum of $8,000 on the official bond of appellee as Consul General, and the further sum of $50,165.85 from the appellee personally.

For cause of action the appellant alleged: That Henry H. Cunningham died intestate at Shanghai, China, on the 10th day of June, 1905, possessed of a…