Case ID: va_12/html/0321-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "*PER CURIAM.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Anderson v. Gest.
    June Term, 1808.
    Order for Account — Before Whom Made. — An order oí the Court oí Chancery, to make up an account, without saying before whom it is to be done, must be executed before one of the master commissioners of the Court.
    Same — Commissioners —Appointment Out of State-Consent. — The Court cannot appoint commissioners to make up an account out of the state, except by consent of parties.
    The defendant, a resident of England, had been ordered by this Court in the time of the late Chancellor, to make up his account of administration of William Anderson’s estate. The order did not express that it should be-done before a Master of this Court; and at this term by his counsel he exhibited an unauthenticated copy of an account reported to the Court of Chancery in England by one of its masters, and insisted that, when a duly authenticated copy should be produced, it should be received by the Court here as evidence : or, that, considering his residence, he should be allowed to make up his account of administration before persons in England.
   *PER CURIAM.

This Court cannot change its course on account of the residence of parties. All who are ordered to account must do so, before one of its masters, or before commissioners appointed by it, which it can only direct within its own jurisdiction, unless the parties consent to commissioners without, in which case it is their act, and not the act of the court, and to which the Court will not object.