John Archibald Campbell, Beauregard v. City of New Orleans…
“ The claim of an embarrassed debtor to exhibit the condition of his affairs to a court with a view to obtain its assistance to convoke his creditors, that they may deliberate upon a proposition to grant him a delay or respite, and to bind the minority to the conclusions of a consenting majority, is one which has no recognition in the common law. ”
John Archibald Campbell, Beauregard v. City of New Orleans…
“ They are analogous to proceedings in admiralty, where the only question of jurisdiction is the power of the court over the thing-the subject-mater before them-without regard to the parties who may have an interest in it. All the world are parties. In the orphans' court, and all the courts which have power to sell the estates of decedents, their action operates on the estate, not on the heirs of the intestate. A purchaser claims not their title, but one paramount. ”
John Archibald Campbell, Beauregard v. City of New Orleans…
“ An important share of the attention of all courts of a limited jurisdiction is engrossed in ascertaining the causes over which they may legitimately claim cognizance, and the administration of an involved or insolvent succession, from the number of the parties in interest, and the variety of conflicting and complicated claims that are oftentimes exhibited, frequently affords difficult questions of this description. ”
