Laughlin v. Solomon

Citations

• 180 Pa. 177
• 40 W.N.C. 1
• 36 A. 704
• 1897 Pa. LEXIS 898

Syllabus

<p>Executors and administrators — Suit against foreign executor.</p> <p>In Pennsylvania a foreign executor within the jurisdiction of the Pennsylvania courts is liable to suit by a resident creditor of his decedent, and such suit will be sustained unless it would trench unduly on the jurisdiction of another court already attached, or would expose parties subject to such jurisdiction to inequitable burdens: Swearingen v. Pendleton, 4 S. & R. 389; Evans v. Tatem, 9 S. & R. 252; Bryan v. McGee, 2 Wash. C. C. 337 followed; Magraw v. Irwin, 87 Pa. 139 distinguished.</p>