Case Name: CAIN v. HUTSON et al.
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1942-04-06
Citations: 127 F.2d 19
Docket Number: No. 7927
Parties: CAIN v. HUTSON et al.
Judges: Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and VINSON and EDGERTON, Associate Justices.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 127
Pages: 19–20

Head Matter:
CAIN v. HUTSON et al.
No. 7927.
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Argued Feb. 12, 1942.
Decided April 6, 1942.
Mr. Rossa F. Downing, of Washington, D. C., for appellant.
Mr. James J. Hayden, of Washington, D. C., for appellees.
Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and VINSON and EDGERTON, Associate Justices.

Opinion:
EDGERTON, Associate Justice.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court dismissing appellant's suit.
Appellees were mortgagees under a bond and mortgage dated June 23, 1932, in the principal sum of $6,800. The mortgage covered real estate in Pennsylvania, and was executed there by Cecil B. Pascoe. By May 10, 1939, when this complaint was filed, appellees had collected over $12,000. This is a suit for an accounting of the sums collected.
Pascoe, the mortgagor, died a resident of Pennsylvania, where his estate is being administered. His administrator is not a party to this suit. Plaintiff-appellant is the executrix of the estate of the mortgagor's mother, now deceased, who was his sole heir and next of kin. Under the laws of both the District of 'Columbia and Pennsylvania the mortgagor's administrator was a necessary party to this suit. The complaint was rightly dismissed.
Affirmed.
His original administrators were named as defendants, but were not served with process and did not appear.
D.C.Code 1940, § 20 — 501, 20-505; Kashouty v. Deep, — App.D. C. —, 126 F.2d 233.
Purdon's Penn.Stat.Ann., Tit. 20, § 772, as amended July 2, 1937, P.L. 2755, § 2; Craig v. Blau, 288 Pa. 547, 136 A. 860.