In Re Stevenson's Estate

This is an appeal by Nat Taylor from an order made in the matter of the estate of Claire S. Stevenson, deceased, wherein the district court of Cascade county preferred the claim of Smith & Eickemeyer over that of Taylor.

On April 16, 1927, Smith & Eickemeyer brought suit against Claire S. Stevenson to recover the sum of $4,500 and in the suit procured the issuance of a writ of attachment which on that day was duly levied upon real property of the defendant in Cascade county. The suit had not proceeded to judgment when the defendant died. Taylor had obtained a deficiency judgment in the sum of…