Hall v. Harrison
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. William Hall and James Hall commenced a suit in the Court of Chancery of the state of New York, against James Harrison and others. Harrison appeared to the suit and answered the bill. Pending that suit, James Hall died, and Lewis Hall, Benjamin E. Morgan and Maria Hall, as his administrators, were substituted in his place as complainants.
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Error to St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. William Hall and James Hall commenced a suit in the Court of Chancery of the state of New York, against James Harrison and others. Harrison appeared to the suit and answered the bill. Pending that suit, James Hall died, and Lewis Hall, Benjamin E. Morgan and Maria Hall, as his administrators, were substituted in his place as complainants. The suit resulted in a decree in favor of the complainants against Harrison for the payment of a sum of money. The parties, complainants in that suit, instituted an action by petition in the St. Louis Court of Common…
1Opinion of the CourtLeonard, Judge
1. This case has been submitted to us upon written arguments, and the counsel seem not to have entirely concurred in their views of the questions of law proper to be discussed for the decision of the cause.
The plaintiffs labor to establish as a general proposition that, if an administrator recover a judgment upon a cause of action belonging to his intestate, he may afterwards sue on it in his own name without any reference to his representative capacity.
The defendant, assuming that the debtor was a citizen of this state when the intestate died, insists that our laws recognize no foreign…
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