This Supreme Court case involved a dispute between a trustee and an administrator over the distribution of a deceased person's estate. The trustee argued that the administrator had wrongfully distributed the estate to the wrong parties, and that the trustee should have been the one to distribute the estate. The administrator argued that the trustee had no legal authority to distribute the estate, and that the administrator had the right to do so. The Supreme Court ultimately sided with the trustee, ruling that the trustee had the legal authority to distribute the estate. The Court held that the administrator had no legal authority to distribute the estate, and that the trustee was the proper party to do so. The Court also held that the administrator had wrongfully distributed the estate to the wrong parties, and that the trustee was entitled to recover the funds that had been wrongfully distributed.

In the case of Jefferson, Trustee v. Driver, Administrator & Another, the Supreme Court was asked to decide whether a state court had jurisdiction over a suit brought by an administrator against a trustee in another state. The majority opinion held that it did not have such jurisdiction and reversed the decision of the lower court. However, Justice Field dissented from this opinion on two grounds: firstly that there was no constitutional or statutory authority for denying full faith and credit to judgments rendered by other states; secondly that Congress had not enacted any law specifically prohibiting such suits from being heard in different states. He argued further that if Congress intended to limit interstate litigation then they should pass specific legislation rather than relying on general principles of comity between states which could be interpreted differently depending upon circumstances.