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FEDERAL REPORTER.
But, although this may be so, still I think there are oertain facts which, it is claimed by the plaintiff, are established by the evidence" which, if true, may entitle her to relief, independent of the view already stated by the court. It is said, and there is proof tending to show that the defendant received a part of the proceeds of the sales of timber, and that some of the timber which was taken from the land thus held in trust was used by the defendant. Wherever the proceeds of the timber taken from the land can be traced into the hands of the defendant, or wherever timber cut from the land has been used by the defendant, it ought to account to the equitable owners of the land; and so the plaintiff may be entitled to her share to that extent and no further.
OGLESBY and others v. ATTlULL. (Oircu&" Oourt, E. D. Louisiana.
February, 1882.)
1.
EQUITY PLEADING AND l'RAcTIClll-AMENDMEN'rs.
If an amendment have the e1Iec't of making a new case, or If it makes a case inconsistent with the position of the complainants in the suit at law where they are seekinjl; a new trial, a motion to take such amendment from the tiles is a proper one, and will be allowed. 2. SUBSTITUTED SERVIClIl.
There can be no doubt of the propriety of substituted service when brought to obtain a new trial of a cause at law in the sam I: court. Minnesota v. St. Paul, 2 Wall. 633.
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bill is
3.
REVllIlW BY ANOTHlIlR CIRCUIT JUDGE.
A decision in a case rendered by one judge of a circuit court Is not open for review by any other judge sitting in the same court and in the lIame calle. Cole Silver Min. Co v. Virginia, e'c., 00. 1 Saw]. 685,689.
Motion to take Amended Bill from the Files. Richard De Gray, Robert Mott, and Henry B. Kelly, for complainants. Thomas J. Semmes, for defendant. PARDEE, C. J. The oriRinal bill; in its widest scope, is a bill to impeach a. judgment rendered at law, and to procure a new trial in the case where the judgment was rendered. It was only for such a bill that substituted service was ordered by the court. It is only for such a bill that the defendant is before the court. Under leave obtained from the court complainants have amended their bill by setting up matters not pertinent to the question of a 'l<Hepoi·ted by Joseph P. Hornor, Esq., of the New Orleans oar.
9GLEBBY V.ATTRILL.
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new trial or to the impeachment of the judgment rendered, but tending to charge the defendant, as trustee for the complainants, for a large amount of gas stock. the sale of which constituted the cause of action in the case at law wherein the new trial is sought. Counsel for defendant moves to take the amendment from the files on the grounds (1) of the limited appearance of the defendant, and the limited jurisdiction of the court over the defendant; (2) because ('3ee the amendment makes a new case. The motion is a proper 1 Daniell, Ch. 426,) and I think the last ground well taken. The first clause of amendment made can have no effect unless it be to charge the defendant as trustee, and to give it that effect would be to make a new case. Besides, an inspection of the record shows that it makes a case inconsistent with the position of in the suit at law, where they are a new trial. In that case they sued for damages growing out of the alleged fraudulent sale of the gas stock, which to that extent was an affirmance oftha sale. MiUer v. Barber, 66 N. Y. 564. See Stevenson v. Newnham, 76 E. C. L. 297. Solicitor for defendant also moves the court that the substituted service of process heretofore made in this case be set aside and annulled. I have examined the record, and I find that this question has been passed upon and adjudicated by the district judge sitting in this court in the early sta.ge of this case. 12 FED. REP. 227. This decision is not open for review to any other judge sitting in this court in the same case. See Cole Silver Min. Co. v. Virginia, etc., Co. 1 Sawy. 685, 689. Besides, the decision seems to be well supported by the language of the supreme court in the case of Minnesota v. St. Paul, 2 Wall. 633, where it is 'said: "Yet this court has decided many times that when a bill is filed in the circuit court to enjoin a judgment of that court, it is not to be considered as an original bill. but as a continuation of the proceeding at law; so much so that the court will proceed in the injunction suit without actual service of subpuma on the c;lefendant, and though he be a citizen of another state, if he were party to the judgment at law."
If this be the practice where a bill is brought to enjoin a judgment, what doubt can there be as to the propriety of Bubstituted service when a bili is brought to obtain a new trial of a cause at law in the ' same court? It seems to me that the motion of defendant to take the amendment from the files, should be-allowed so far as the first clause of complain-
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ants' amendment of date January 2, 1882, is concel'lled, and that otherwise the amendment may stand; the defendant to plead, answer, or demur on or before the rule-day in March; the complainants to pay the costs of this rule. And it is so ordered.
FITZPATRICK
and others v.
DOMINGO.-
(Oircuit (]OU1't, E. D. Louisiana.
November, 1882.)
Albert Goldthwaite and A. Micou, for plaintiffs. Chas. H. Lavillebeurre, for executor of defendant. BILLINGS, D. J. This cause is submitted on a demurrer to a bill of revivor. The original bill was to obtain an accounting from the respondent, Jose Domingo, in behalf of the next of kin of his deceased wife, as to her estate. The bill of revivor sets out the original bill, the pendency and progrel'>I of the suit, the death of the original respondent, the probate of his last will, the appointment and qualification of the executor, and then prays for a revival of the suit against the estate of Domingo by bringing in the executor. It is not questioned that the cause of the action originally commenced against Domingo survives against his estate; but the point urged is that under the laws of Louisiana, in the courts of the state of Louisiana, all claims against the estates of decedents must" be presented in the mortuary court. But the question is here one of federal jurisdiction, to be determined by the statutes of the United States, and the provisions of "these statutes are," as Judge CONKLING, in his treatise, page 469, remarks, cover] ample." The judiciary act (1 St. at Large, p. 90, § 31) provides that in case the cause of action survives, and either party dies, the court before whom such cause may be depending is empowered and directed to >li'Reported by Joseph P. Hornor, Esq., of the .New Orleans oar.