Crisfield v. State

This is a suit on the bond of John W. Crisfield, executor of Samuel K. Handy, to recover a sum of money claimed to he due the equitable plaintiff, as residuary legatee under the will of the testator.'

A few days after the institution of the suit, the defendant, Crisfield, was adjudicated a bankrupt, and among other claims proved against the bankrupt estate, was that set forth in the breach assigned in plaintiff ’a declaration.

Subsequently, the Court of its own motion directed a stay of proceedings as against the bankrupt, now the appellant in this case.

The suit was afterwards entered to the…