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ASPDEN ET AL. v. NIXON ET AL.

45 U.S. 467 (1846)

4 How. 467

ASPDEN AND OTHERS COMPLAINANTS, v. NIXON AND OTHERS, DEFENDANTS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was argued by Mr. J. Hoffman and Mr. David Hoffman, with whom was Mr. Charles J. Ingersoll, for John Aspden of Lancashire, in support of the plea in bar, and by Mr. Reed and Mr. Williams, for Mrs. Poole and Mrs. Jones, and for John A. Brown, administrator of John Aspden of London, against the validity of the plea.

Mr. Justice CATRON (after having stated the facts of the case as they are recited in the commencement of this report) proceeded to deliver the opinion of the court.

We understand the true question submitted to this court to be, whether the decree dismissing the bill, made by the High Court of Chancery in England, bars and precludes John A. Brown, the Pennsylvania administrator of John Aspden of London, from prosecuting his...

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