BLINN v. NELSON

No. 5.

222 U.S. 1 (1911)

BLINN, RECEIVER OF ALLEN, AN ABSENTEE, v. NELSON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided October 23, 1911.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George R. Blinn, receiver, plaintiff in error, pro se, submitted.

Mr. Amos L. Taylor, with whom Mr. Hollis R. Bailey was on the brief, for defendants in error.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a petition by the next of kin of an absentee for the distribution of her property in the hands of the receiver; the appointment of the receiver, the taking of the property into his hands, and the present petition all being under Massachusetts Revised Laws, c. 144, and amendments to the same. The general scheme of the law is that in case of a person disappearing...

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