BROWNE AND OTHERS v. STRODE

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BROWNE AND OTHERS v. STRODE. The courts of the United. States have jurisdiction in ft case between citizens of the same state, if the plaintiffs áre only nominal plaintiffsfor the use of. an alien. THIS was a cáse certified from the circuit court for the district of Virginia,. the judges of that court being divided in opinion upon the question whether they had jurisdiction of the case. It was an action on a bond given by an executor for the faithful execution of his testator’s will, in conformity with the statute of Virginia. . The object of the suit was to recover a debt due from the testator in his life-fime to a British subject. The defendant was a citizen of Virginia. The persons named in the declaration as plaintiffs were the justices of the peace for the county of Stafford, and were all citizens of Virginia. The question being submitted without argument,