Vidal v. Mayor of Philadelphia
Supreme Court of the United States
This case came up by appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States, sitting as a court of equity, for the eastern district of Pennsylvania. ''.’lie object of the bill filed in the court below was to set aside a pa.ct of the will of the late Stephen Girard, under the following circumstances — Girard, a native of France, was born about the middle of the last century.
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This case came up by appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States, sitting as a court of equity, for the eastern district of Pennsylvania. ''.’lie object of the bill filed in the court below was to set aside a pa.ct of the will of the late Stephen Girard, under the following circumstances — Girard, a native of France, was born about the middle of the last century. Shortly before the declaration of independence he came to the United States, and before the peace of 1783 was a resident of the city of Philadelphia, where he died, in December, 1831, a widower and without issue. Besides some…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Story
This cause has been argued with great learning and ability. Many topics have been discussed in the arguments, as illustrative of the-principal grounds of controversy, with elaborate care, upon which, however, in the view which we have taken of the merits of the cause, it is not necessary for us to express any opinion, nor even to allude to their bearing or application. We shall, therefore, confine ourselves to the exposition of those questions and principles which, in our judgment, dispose of the whole matters in litigation; so far at least as they are proper for the final adjudication of the…
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