PICKETT v. FOSTER

No. 175.

149 U.S. 505 (1893)

PICKETT v. FOSTER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 15, 1893.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Robert E. De Forest, Mr. N.L. Jeffries and Mr. William E. Earle, for appellants, submitted on their briefs.

Mr. Samuel F. Phillips, (with whom was Mr. Frederic D. McKenney on the brief,) for George and Mary J. Foster, appellees.


MR. JUSTICE SHIRAS, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

Upon the facts disclosed by the pleadings and evidence it is plain that the complainants are not entitled to a reversal of the decree below, dismissing their bill, unless they have sustained their allegations of fraud on the part of George Foster, as public administrator of Carroll Parish, and of such knowledge and complicity therein on the part...

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