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The Statute of Missouri which, as construed by the Supreme Court of that state, authorizes a special administrator, having charge of the estate of a testator pending a contest as to the validity of his will, to have a final settlement of his accounts, conclusive against distributes, without giving notice to them is not repugnant to the clause of the Constitution of the United States which forbids a state to deprive any person of his property without due process of law.

This case was brought before the Court on the following motions made by defendant in error's counsel: