McMaster v. Arthur

The opinion'of the court was delivered by

Mr. Chief Justice Simpson.

One Stephen W. McKenzie, late of Richland County, died in 1887, testate, leaving a widow, Harriet McKenzie, the defendant, and two minor daughters. His estate consisted of a small amount of personal property, and two small houses and two lots of land situate in the city of Columbia. The widow declined to take under the will, and the estate of the deceased being indebted, a proceeding was instituted in the Court of Common Pleas, in the nature of a creditors’ bill, against *513the defendant Arthur as administrator with the will…