Miller v. Woodruff

Upon allegations of no personal assets to pay debts, tlie bill herein was filed by the administrator of Mrs. Christine Lafayette Jackson, and certain creditors, to sell a small tract of land worth $400 which she owned for that purpose. The bill was filed upon the authority of section 8213 of the Code (Act of 1827), which is as follows:

“Where an executor not authorized by will to sell and convey real estate, or an administrator, has exhausted the personal estate of the deceased in the payment of his debts, leaving just debts or demands against him unpaid, or paid by the representative out of…