Hook v. Payne
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Missouri; the case being thus: Ann Payne, a citizen of Virginia, filed a bill in chancery in the Circuit Court of the United States for Missouri, against Zadok Hook and others, citizens of the State .of Missouri.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Missouri; the case being thus: Ann Payne, a citizen of Virginia, filed a bill in chancery in the Circuit Court of the United States for Missouri, against Zadok Hook and others, citizens of the State .of Missouri. Hook had acted as administrator of the estate of one Curtis, and the other defendants were sureties on his official bond, and the object of the bill was to assert the right of the complainant, as one of the heirs of Curtis, to an account and a distribution of the assets in Hook’s hands. But she had received of Hook a certain sum of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
delivered the opinion of the court.. 1. We are of opinion that all that part of the decree which attempts to settle the rights of the parties, who were neither plaintifls nor defendants in the original suit, must be reversed.
We do not propose, in this ease, to lay down any precise rule on the subject of adjusting administrators’ accounts in the Federal courts, or how far certain persons, not made parties in the original suit, or incapable of being made parties by reason of their citizenship, may or may not come in before .the master, on a general accounting, anti protect their rights; nor do…
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