State ex rel. Griffith v. Holt

The plaintiffs, as assignees of the distributees of Nancy Wilson, deceased, obtained an order on the county court of Marion county for distribution to them, by the administrator, of a certain sum of money as assets of the estate ; and upon an appeal to the circuit court this order was confirmed. This suit was against the administrator and his securities for a breach of his official bond in not paying over according to said order or judgment; and the question was, whether the securities were bound by the judgment, or were at liberty to show that the administrator had no assets in his hands,…