Byers v. McAuley
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. James MoAuley, who died on the 9th day of January, 1871, by his will, dated November -26, 1870, made large bequests to his sisters Margaret and Mary, and also devised to them a house and lot on Duquesne Way, in the city of Pittsburgh.
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APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. James MoAuley, who died on the 9th day of January, 1871, by his will, dated November -26, 1870, made large bequests to his sisters Margaret and Mary, and also devised to them a house and lot on Duquesne Way, in the city of Pittsburgh. Margaret died intestate in 1871, a few months after her brother, and her interest passed to her sister Mary, who dr d January 6, 1886, seized of said real estate, and leaving also a large personal estate. As respects the latter, she died intestate, but she left an…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justice Bee wee,
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the' court.
It is obvious from the decree which was entered that the. Circuit Court of the United States assumed full control of the-administration of the estate. That decree disposed of and distributed the entire estate among all the persons interested! therein, citizens and non-citizens of the State. It did not stop-with an adjudication of the claims of citizens of other States against the-estate, but assumed to determine controversies between citizens of the same State, for the two corporations named- in the. first…
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