Meeks v. Meeks

This action is for an accounting by an executor. Ho special reason is pleaded or exists why the aid of a court of equity is invoked. The defendant moves that the complaint be dismissed on the ground that this court should not take jurisdiction of the action. The rule that a court of equity has discretion to and should refuse to take jurisdiction in matters over which the surrogate’s court is given jurisdiction, unless for some special reason, such as that a complete remedy cannot be had in that court, or that its power needs to be supplemented by the fuller powers of a court of equity, has…