Smith, Administrator v. the Union Bank of Georgetown
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the district of Columbia, for the county of Washington. This case came before the circuit court on the following case agreed : ; “ Samuel Robertson, a native of the state of Maryland, a purser in the 1 navy of the United States, and as such purser, for several years before his death, stationed and domiciled at Norfolk, in the state of Virginia, died, in the year 182-, at Bedford, in Pennsylvania, intestate, insolvent — whither he had gone on a…
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Error to the Circuit Court of the district of Columbia, for the county of Washington. This case came before the circuit court on the following case agreed : ; “ Samuel Robertson, a native of the state of Maryland, a purser in the 1 navy of the United States, and as such purser, for several years before his death, stationed and domiciled at Norfolk, in the state of Virginia, died, in the year 182-, at Bedford, in Pennsylvania, intestate, insolvent — whither he had gone on a visit, for the benefit of his health. He was, at the time of his death, indebted to the plaintiffs, residing in the…
1Opinion of the Court
Johnson, Justice,
delivered the opinion of the court. — The judgment below is rendered upon an agreed case, on which the following state of facts is exhibited. The defendant’s testator was domiciled at Norfolk, in Virginia, at which place he contracted a debt on bond to one Thompson. He was also indebted to the Union Bank, the defendant in error, on simple contract. He died at Bedford, in Pennsylvania, and the defendant Smith administered on his estate in the county of Washington, in this district. Robertson, at the time of his death, was possessed of personal assets in the county of…
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