Colt v. Colt
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOE THE DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT. This was a bill in equity to recover certain shares of the capital stock of Colt’s Patent Fire-arms Manufacturing Company, a corporation of Connecticut at Hartford, in the hands of the executors of Samuel Colt, deceased, as a part of his residuary estate, under his will.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOE THE DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT. This was a bill in equity to recover certain shares of the capital stock of Colt’s Patent Fire-arms Manufacturing Company, a corporation of Connecticut at Hartford, in the hands of the executors of Samuel Colt, deceased, as a part of his residuary estate, under his will. The complainants were children of the late'Christopher Colt, a brother of the testator, and Mrs. Theodora G. Colt, their mother, who was assignee of the interest of a deceased son. The defendants were executors of the last will of Samuel Colt,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Matthews
He stated the facts in the foregoing language, and continued:
The first inquiry upon this appeal manifestly, is, as to the effect to be given in this sujt to the decree of the Suprior Court of. Connecticut; for, if as set up and claimed by the appellees, it is an estoppel by record, the matter of the bill is res judicata, and we cannot open it.
• And in considering the grounds on which it is sought to repel the bar .of this decree, we must disregard at once all that do not attack the jurisdiction of the court over the cause or the parties. It cannot be assailed collaterally for mere error. It…
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