In re Griggs’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““One Nadeau commenced an action in a state court of Minnesota against Griggs and Nash individually and as executors of the will of Solomon E. King, deceased, to recover for services in securing a purchaser for lands of the King estate in Minnesota which the will authorized the executors to sell. The cause was removed to the Federal court. The defendants lived in Illinois, the domicile of the testator, but the court had .jurisdiction of them, both as individuals and as executors. During the trial a stipulation was made as follows: ‘That this action is dismissed as to Clarence Griggs personally, and William W. Nash personally, and that judgment upon any verdict which may be rendered herein in favor of the plaintiff shall be entered against Clarence Griggs and William W. Nash as executors of the estate of Solomon E. King, deceased.’ “A verdict for plaintiff followed, and judgment was accordingly entered against defendants as executors. On a writ of error obtained by them from this court, the judgment was reversed, and the cause was remanded for a new trial. Griggs v. Nadeau, 221 Fed. 381 , 137 C. C. A. 189 . It was held that without authority of a statute, the will, or an order of a probate court having jurisdiction, neither of which was shown in the petition, the executors could not bind the estate by such a contract of employment as plaintiff 'alleged, but his remedy was against his employers individually. When the mandate of this court went down, and after the term at which t”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Griggs v. Nadeau