36 F. 402 | U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Vermont | 1888
This bill is brought to compel contribution among shareholders of a private corporation. Two of the orators, each seeking-relief for himself alone, one seeking relief for himself with another jointly, and the defendant, have died. Personal representatives of the individual orators, appointed in Missouri, and the survivor of thejoint one with the others, have brought scire facias against the personal representatives of the defendant in Vermont to revive the suit. The defendants have pleaded to so much of the scire facias as is brought in behalf of these representatives, and this survivor, denying their right to proceed with the case, and the plea has been argued.
The bill proceeds upon the ground that the defendant had in his hands money or property which in equity and good conscience belonged to the orators, respectively. This money or property constituted assets of the estates of these testators in Vermont. Such assets could only be recovered by personal representatives deriving authority 'from within, that jurisdiction. Wilkins v. Ellett, 108 U. S. 256, 2 Sup. Ct. Rep. 641. This i^not contrary to the decision in Purple v. Whithed, 49 Vt. 187, relied upon in behalf of these foreign representatives. In that case there were no assets of the estate of which the plaintiffs were administrators, in Vermont.
