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9 Johns. 442

Wilson v. Hamilton

Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · decided 1812-01-15

HENRY, for the respondents, presented a petition of one of the respondents, stating that one of the respondents, a feme sole, had married, and that one of the respondents and one of the appellants jjad djed s;nce the appeal was filed in this cause; and he moved that the appellants bring in the proper parties, in a reasonable time, and proceed on the appeal, or that the ■ proceedings here be suspended.*

Decided 1812-01-15

Per Curiam.

¶1Here is a change of parties in interest, pending . . the appeal; and as all the parties in interest are not now before the court, we cannot pronounce a decree which will embrace the whole matter in litigation, and put a final end to the controversy. It is an established principle of a court of equity not to decree finally until all the proper parties are before the court. _a_s this court does not possess original jurisdiction, so as to award process to bring in the parties whose interest has accrued since the appeal was filed, the cause ought to be remanded without prejudice to either party.

¶2The following order was thereupon made:

¶3On the petition of Isaac Hamilton, one of the respondents, stating that one of the respondents, a feme sole, had married, and one of the respondents and one of the appellants had died, pending the appeal; and on motion of Mr. Henry, counsel for the petitioner, and to the end that the proper steps may be taken in the court below, to call in the parties whose interests have accrued by the marriage and deaths .of the parties aforesaid; ordered that the said cause be remanded, without costs.

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