Case ID: dc_2/html/0058-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Carter’s Heirs v. I. B. Cutting & Wife.
    An issue, sent by the Orphans’ Court to this Court, to try the validity of a will, cannot be removed to the other county, under the Act of Congress of the 24th of June, 1812, § 8.
    An issue was sent by the Orphans’ Court of this county, to this Court, to try the question devisavit vel non.
    
    
      Mr. R. J. Taylor, for the defendant,
    made a motion to change the venue to Washington County, founded upon the defendant’s affidavit of partiality and general prejudice in this county. This motion was made under the Act of Congress [2 Stat. at Large, 757,] of the 24th of June, 1812, § 8, “to amend the laws within the District of Columbia.”
   The Court,

however,

(Thurston, J., absent,)

was of opinion that it was not a case which could be transferred to another county under that act. (See, also, Alexander v. Wise, May terra, 1844.)