Succession of Field

This is an appeal from a judgment sustaining the opposition of Ethan Allen as administrator of the estate of Thomas Bell, to the tableau of distribution filed by Thomas Maskell, as administrator of the estate of one John N. Field. The opposition is founded on a judgment obtained by Thomas Bell, deceased, against one Nerson, for $160, with interest and costs, on the 23d day of June, 1831, and recorded on the 6th of July following, which had the effect of a judicial mortgage on all the property of the debtor. Several years afterwards, an execution having been issued against Nerson by other…