Hooker v. Olmstead
Hooker v. Olmstead
Opinion of the Court
Inasmuch as the creditor filed his claim generally with the commissioners, and a distribution was decreed upon an allowance of the whole claim, we think he waived his right under the mortgage.
It further appeared, that Asa Olmstead, after his appointment as administrator in this State, also took out letters of ancillary administration in the State of Connecticut, where he received assets by the collection of debts and the sale of land. The estate was there represented insolvent, and certain sums were returned by commissioners of insolvency as due to certain Connecticut creditors, which were paid in full by the administrator, as appeared by his first administration account settled in Connecticut. Upon an extension of the time for receiving claims, other debts (being those of the Massachusetts creditors) were allowed by the commissioners, upon which a dividend was decreed of the balance of the money received in Connecticut. The plaintiff contended, that the Connecticut creditors who were paid in full, ought not to have received more in proportion
The plaintiff is not entitled to execution for the sums collected in Connecticut from debtors living there and from the sale of the real estate. They do not come within the bond,
Some debts were collected by the administrator since this action was commenced, and it was contended by the defendants that the execution to be issued ought not to include these sums ; but the Court said, that as this was a hearing in chancery, they might be taken into consideration.
See Peck v. Mead, 2 Wendell, 471; Story’s Confl. Laws, 437, 438.
See Story’s Confl. Laws, 431, note 2, and cases cited, 423 • Revised Stat. t 70, § 23; Dawes v. Head, 3 Pick. (2nd ed.) 147, note 1.
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