Hamilton v. Carrington
Hamilton v. Carrington
Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
The defendants having answered the complaint, within twenty days after the service of such answers the plaintiffs asked leave to amend their complaint in certain particulars. Such motion came on to be heard by Judge Izlar, who filed the following order refusing such motion: “The plaintiffs ask leave to amend their complaint by alleging: 1. That Emma L. Cohen, administratrix of S. Yates Levy, has received assets amply sufficient to pay the debts in Georgia, and is, therefore, not entitled to receive the funds now in the hands of Master Sass, belonging to the estate of S. Yates Levy. 2. That the administratrix wasted certain assets which came into her hands in Georgia, and especially certain insurance money received in Georgia. The complaint states that Samuel Yates Levy was, at the time of his death, a resident of Savannah, in the State of Georgia, and that Emma L. Cohen had letters of administration granted to her upon the estate of the said S. Yates Levy, by the ordinary of Chatham County, in the State of Georgia, and also took out ancillary letters of administration in the Court of Probate for Charleston County. These amendments are intended to make her account before this court for funds received in Georgia, as domiciliary administratrix. This cannot be done. In his work on Executors anfl Administrators, paragraph 179, Mr. Schouler says: ‘But as to administrators whose appointments are necessarily derived from different sovereign jurisdictions, there is no privity, and according to the universal American rule, so independent are different ancillary administrations of the principal administrator and of each other, that property and assets received in one forum cannot be sued for, or its application compelled in
It is the judgment of this court, that the appeal be dismissed, and the cause be remanded to the Circuit Court for such further proceedings, if any, that the parties may be advised are necessary or proper.
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- 1. Amendments. — Where plaintiffs apply to the court within twenty days after answer served for leave to amend their complaint, they thereby waive their privilege to amend as of right, and submit their claim to the discretion of the court. 2. Ibid. — Ancillary Administration. — An amendment to a complaint was properly refused where its purpose was to require an ancillary administratrix to account for assets received in her capacity as domiciliary administratrix, as she was so accountable only in the courts of the domicile. 3. Another Action — Appeal.—The execution of a decree in a prior cause cannot be held by this court to be stayed by a subsequent action between the same parties, as to the same matters, where no such question was raised on Circuit.