Yard v. Their Creditors

On a rule taken by the widow of Blois, one of the insolvents, against the syndics in this case, to show cause why they should not pay to her the sum of $4222 25, as a privileged creditor by judgment, J. H. Field, one of the syndics, (Yard the other syndic having died in 1838,) was decreed to pay the whole amount of the claim, with damages on the same, at the rate of twenty per cent per annum, from the 37th of May, 1839, the date of the institution of the suit in the District Court to recover this amount, until paid. From this decree, Field has appealed.

The evidence shows that when the syndics…