Bacon v. Rives

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendants in role of mere garnishees were immaterial parties for purposes of determining diversity of citizenship
• holding that statutes of limitations do not accrue against beneficiary of trust until beneficiary receives notice that trust is closed or that trustee has disavowed trust
• action was removable because non-diverse executors \were neither necessary nor indispensable parties\
• executor of an estate held to be a nominal party when the executor had no personal interest in the outcome and was named only so that the court might later grant relief as to the estate assets
• executors \were neither necessary nor indispensable parties\

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