John Hessin Clarke

“ There is nothing whatever in the statute which indicates any intention on the part of the legislature to exclude nonresident executors or administrators from resort to Federal courts under appropriate conditions, and the construction which is urged upon us to give to it such an effect is too strained and artificial to be allowed. ”

“ The remainder of the act prescribes the method of service of summons upon such a nonresident executor or administrator.
Upon a full review of the legislation of the state in Southern R. Co. v. Maxwell, 113 Tenn. ”