Caujolle v. Ferrié’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions

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1. ““A grant of letters of administration by a court having sole and exclusive power of granting them, and which by statute is obliged to grant them ‘to the relatives of the deceased, who would be entitled to succeed to his personal estate,’ is conclusive in other courts on a question of legitimacy; the grant having Been made on an issue raised on the question of legitimacy alone, and there having been no question of minority, bad habits, alienage, or other disqualification simply personal. Held, accordingly, after a grant under such circumstances, that the legitimacy could not be gone into by the complainants on a bill for distribution by the persons who had opposed the grant of letters against the person to whom they had been granted; but, on the contrary, that the complainants were estopped on that subject.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Higgins v. Eaton