Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court April 15, 1823 (Jennison v. Hapgood)

The opinion of the Court was delivered as drawn up by

Parker C. J.

The general question which has been at gued is, if this Court, in virtue of the statute of 1817, c. 87, has jurisdiction of the matters charged in the plaintiff’s bill. The plaintiffs are the administrators of John Grout deceased ; the defendant is the executor of Jonathan Grout deceased.