Wiggins v. Bethune
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Virginia
In Equity. Bill for an accounting. Plea of want of jurisdiction. Charity Wiggins, who sues as next friond of Thomas Wiggins, (“Blind Tom,”) is a citizen of New York; James N. Bethune, the defendant, of Virginia.
1Opinion of the CourtBond, J.
This is a bill filed by the complainant for an account, to which a plea of want of jurisdiction has been interposed. The facts, as they appear from the affidavits filed by the parties, and as they have been stated at bar by the respective counsel, are these: John G. Bethune, who at the time was a citizen of Virginia, having Blind Tom in his keeping, was, on the twenty-fifth day of July, 1870, by a probate court of this state, appointed Tom’s committee, he being found non compos mentis. As such committee, Bethune took Tom from place to place, through the various states of the Union, giving…
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