Hilton v. Dickinson
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Bill of interpleader filed by Charles D. Gilmore against Benjamin S. Hilton, William H. Dickinson, John Devlin, .and others, to determine the ownership of $2,500, winch Gilmore held as trustee. The fund was paid into court, and when the decree below was rendered had increased by investment to more than‘$3,000. Hilton; Dickinson,-and Devlin each claimed the whole.
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APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Bill of interpleader filed by Charles D. Gilmore against Benjamin S. Hilton, William H. Dickinson, John Devlin, .and others, to determine the ownership of $2,500, winch Gilmore held as trustee. The fund was paid into court, and when the decree below was rendered had increased by investment to more than‘$3,000. Hilton; Dickinson,-and Devlin each claimed the whole. The court, at special term, decreed the whole to Hilton. From this- decree both Dickinson and Devlin, appealed to-the general term. There the decree at special term was…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Chief Justice "Waite
delivered the opinion of the court.
At the last term, in the case of The S. S. Osborne, 105 U. S. 447, it was decided that “ Cross-appeal's must be prosecuted like other appeals. Every appellant, to entitle himself to be heard on his own appeal, must appear here as an actor in his own behalf by having the appearance of counsel entered, and giving the security required by the rules.” In that case the appeal had been docketed, but long after the time when by law- it should have been done; and, following the rule announced in Grigsby v. Purcell, 99 U. S. 505, it was…
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