Brown v. Fletcher
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE APPEALS EOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. Conrad Braker, Jr., of New York who there died July 21, 1891, by his will created several trusts in favor of his son, Conrad Morris Braker. The beneficiary of these trusts, the son, assigned a portion of'his interest in them to one Rabe and nearly the whole of the remainder to the New York Finance Company.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE APPEALS EOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. Conrad Braker, Jr., of New York who there died July 21, 1891, by his will created several trusts in favor of his son, Conrad Morris Braker. The beneficiary of these trusts, the son, assigned a portion of'his interest in them to one Rabe and nearly the whole of the remainder to the New York Finance Company. Rabe subsequently assigned to the Finance Company the interest which he had acquired and tlie Finance Company which thus claimed to be the successor or assignee to all, or nearly all, the interest of Braker, the son,, under…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief Justice 'White,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
It is apparent from the statement which we have made that the ruling as to the question of jurisdiction made in the two previous cases involving the same subject-matter which is here in controversy so far as it concerned the jurisdiction of the court as a Federal court, conclusively demonstrates that the court below erred in declining to take cognizance of the cause upon the theory that it was without its jurisdiction as a Federal court to do so. While it is clear, the question of. jurisdiction…
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