Bursen v. Goodspeed

This was an application by an administrator for leave to sell eighty acres of land for the payment of debts of his .intestate. •• '

The intestate died January 1, 1856 ; letters of administration on his estate were granted February 5, 1856. This petition by the adminstrator was not presented until September 27, 1869.

The main question in the case is, whether the lien which creditors have upon the real estate of their deceased debtors, for satisfaction of their debts, and which they may enforce through administration, has not been lost by the lapse of time between the intestate’s death and the…