Helm v. Darby's Administrator

Judge Ewing was not present when the cause was submitted, and took no partin the decision.

Patrick H. Darby, deceased, by his last will, directed that his whole estate, real and personal, should constitute a fund for the payment of his debts, and then devised it to Mary W. Brown, subject to that charge.

The devisee having renounced the devise to her, the legal title to the real estate of the testator descended to his heirs. And various tracts of land which thus descended, having been bought by several persons, under a fieri facias which had been issued on a judgment obtained by John B. Helm…