Stearns v. Page
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States, sitting as a court of equity, for the District of Maine. The bill, filed by Steams as administrator de bonis non of John O. Page, proposed to open and review the accounts of the. estate of said Page, which were .filed from 1811 to 1816 by his widow and original administratrix, Sarah Page. The record was very voluminous.
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This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States, sitting as a court of equity, for the District of Maine. The bill, filed by Steams as administrator de bonis non of John O. Page, proposed to open and review the accounts of the. estate of said Page, which were .filed from 1811 to 1816 by his widow and original administratrix, Sarah Page. The record was very voluminous. There was a bill, and an amended bill, ard amendments to the amended bill, and an amendment to cue of the amendments to the amended bill. Then there were answers to all these bills, and exceptions to the answers,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Grier
' A brief history of the conceded facts of this case; anterior to the filing of the amended bill, may save the trouble of a more tedious analysis of the bill and answer, with their numerous amendments, and tend to elucidate the merits of the case and the questions decided by the court.
John O. Page, the complainant’s intestate, was a merchant in Hallowell, Maine. He built and owned shares in vessels employed in trade, and had a retail shop or store, which, for some years before his death, was managed by his. brother, Rufus. K. Page. In 1810, John O. Page went to England, leaving his business…
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