Marshall v. John Deere Plow Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Clay county. Hon. J. Q. Robbins, Chancellor. In the matter of the estate of J. T. Gibbs, deceased. Prom an order allowing a claim of the John Deere Plow Company against said estate, E. B. Marshall the administrator appeals.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Clay county. Hon. J. Q. Robbins, Chancellor. In the matter of the estate of J. T. Gibbs, deceased. Prom an order allowing a claim of the John Deere Plow Company against said estate, E. B. Marshall the administrator appeals. The notice published by the administrator to creditors was as follows: ' “Whereas letters of administration on the estate of J. T. Gibbs, deceased, were granted to the undersigned on the first day of April, A. D., 1907, by the chancery court of Clay county, State of Mississippi. Now all persons having claims against the estate of said…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
In order that the estates of decedents may be speedily settled, creditors thereof who fail to comply with the terms of section 2107 of the Code are barred from collecting claims against such an estate in a much shorter time than is prescribed for the collection of debts generally. Section 2103 of the Code provides the method of putting the period of limitations prescribed by section 2107 into operation, and it can. be put into operation in no other. The method provided is the giving .of certain information to creditors by means of a published or posted notice, which notice, among other…
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