McFadden v. McFadden
McFadden v. McFadden
Opinion of the Court
The plaintiff, Margaret McFadden, in August, 1861, filed her complaint in the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District against Patrick McFadden, Thomas Stealey, Alfred Eix, Alexander - Eaton, Arnold Hussman, Frederick S. Ell-maker, Adolphus J. Plate, Mary McFadden, Patrick Murray, and John McFadden as defendants, alleging that on the 18th day of October, 1853, she had filed her complaint in the same Court against the defendant Patrick McFadden, who was then her husband, in which she had prayed a dissolution of the bonds of matrimony then existing between
The complaint further alleges that this decree of 1855 has never been carried into execution by the Commissioners or otherwise, by reason of the subsequent absence of one or other of them from the State; that the whereabouts of Hale, one of the Commissioners, is now unknown; that in March, 1855, one J. A. Nunez was by order of the Court substituted as a Commissioner in the place of Leigh, but that Nunez is now, and for a long time has been, absent from the State, and that it has become necessary to appoint Commissioners in the place of both Nunez and Hale, to cooperate with said Stanley in making a division of the community property, and otherwise carrying the decree into execution.
Upon the hearing the complaint was dismissed, and we think properly. The decree of 1855 was an interlocutory decree merely and not a final decree.
A bill to carry into effect a former decree must ordinarily show such a decree to have been final in its character, and that by reason of something occurring subsequently to its rendition the rights of the parties cannot be properly enforced thereunder. This is not such a case; and, as was well said by the learned Judge of the Court below in denying the application for a new trial, “ nothing can be decreed upon
Judgment and order denying a new trial affirmed.
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- MARGARET McFADDEN, by her Guardian, John McFadden v. PATRICK McFADDEN
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- Bill to Caret a Decebe into Effect.—A bill in equity will not lie to carry into effect an interlocutory decree. Idem.—A hill to carry a decree into effect must ordinarily show such decree to have been final in its character, and that by reason of something occurring subsequently to its rendition, the rights of the parties cannot he properly enforced thereunder.