Richardson v. Van Auken
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the defendant from a decree ratifying a report of the auditor in a suit for an accounting. The Court in its opinion stated the case as follows: The bill in this case was filed by the present appellee, Kate A. Van Auken, against the appellants, to procure a declaration of trust in respect to certain real estate held by the late George W. Adams, deceased, and for an account, for and in respect of the rents and income of such property, that came to the…
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Hearing on an appeal by the defendant from a decree ratifying a report of the auditor in a suit for an accounting. The Court in its opinion stated the case as follows: The bill in this case was filed by the present appellee, Kate A. Van Auken, against the appellants, to procure a declaration of trust in respect to certain real estate held by the late George W. Adams, deceased, and for an account, for and in respect of the rents and income of such property, that came to the hands and control of said George W. Adams in his lifetime, as trustee and managing agent of the complainant. The bill was…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Alvey
There has been an objection taken to the generality and want of specification in the exceptions to the auditor’s report. And while we have declined to dismiss the appeal because of such defect, we must say of the exceptions, that they are entirely too general and indefinite. They amount to nothing more than a mere general assignment of error, without any specification in what the error consists. They simply assert generally that the auditor in his schedules A and B had failed to give credit to the estate of George W. Adams for all the money that was expended and was paid by the deceased in…
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- Story v. LivingstonSupreme Court of the United States · 1839
- Crawford v. NealSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Furrer v. FerrisSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Sheffield & Birmingham Coal, Iron & Railway Co. v. GordonSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
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