Ramsay v. Ramsay
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Fourth District;—heard in that court on writ of error to the Circuit Court of Clinton county; the Hon. Samuel L. Dwight, Judge, presiding. Rufus N. Ramsay died on November 11,1894, residing in Clinton county, this State. His son, E. P. Ramsay, was appointed administrator by the county court of that "county on the 17th oí said month.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Fourth District;—heard in that court on writ of error to the Circuit Court of Clinton county; the Hon. Samuel L. Dwight, Judge, presiding. Rufus N. Ramsay died on November 11,1894, residing in Clinton county, this State. His son, E. P. Ramsay, was appointed administrator by the county court of that "county on the 17th oí said month. A large number of claims were presented and allowed against the estate, aggregating $183,854.70. Among those claims was one in favor of Julia D. Ramsay, the widow of Rufus N., for $18,931.72, and another in favor pf G.…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Wilkin
It is insisted by appellants that they are entitled to receive full distributive shares of the assets reported by the administrator to the probate court of Clinton county without in any way being charged with the amounts received from the Missouri assets. The proposition is so manifestly unjust to other creditors of the insolvent estate that it should be sustained only in obedience to strict and imperative requirements of the law. The general policy of the law in all jurisdictions, so far as we are aware, is, that all the property of a deceased insolvent debtor not set apart for the widow or…
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