Hogan v. . Kavanaugh

The judgment in this case has virtually settled and closed up the estate of a deceased person without administration or any resort whatever to the procedure prescribed by statute for the proof of debts and payment thereof from the personal estate or, if insufficient, the sale of the realty for that purpose. An action in equity, in which both sides are actors, has been substituted for the regular and orderly pro ceedings under the statutes for the settlement of the estates of deceased persons. It appears that in September, 1864, Edward Howard died leaving a will and codicil which, in January,…