Colburn v. Grant
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP APPEALS OP THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA. This is an appeal from a decree of tbe Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, which affirmed a decree of the Supreme Court of~the District dismissing a bill in equity, which had been fileeLin that court.
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP APPEALS OP THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA. This is an appeal from a decree of tbe Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, which affirmed a decree of the Supreme Court of~the District dismissing a bill in equity, which had been fileeLin that court. The complainants were legatees of one Augustus G. P. Colburn and their trustee, Franklin H. Mackey, gainst Robert E. Grant, the executor of the estate of George Fitz James Colburn, a deceased trustee of the estate of said Augustus Colburn, for an accounting, it being alleged that there had come into the hands of said trustee…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justioe Shiras,
after making the above statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
The case was heard in the Supreme Court of the District on bill, answers and an agreed statement of facts. Some complaint is made in appellants’ brief of the alleged fact that the court treated certain allegations in the answer of the defendant executor as evidence, although an answer under oath had been dispensed with, and it is said that only those portions of the answer which admitted the allegations of the bill, or contained admissions against interest, should have been considered.
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