Cosby's Heirs v. Wickliffe

Chibe JusireE Simpson

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Nathaniel Wickliffe, and B. Abell, two of the creditors of Dabney C.- Cosby, dec’d., instituted separate suits in chancery against his heirs, to subject to the payment of their demands, some estate which they eon-*203tended liad belonged to him in his lifetime, and was liable for the payment of his debts. To sustain the jurisdiction of a Court of Chancery, it was alleged that no person had administered upon his estate, and that his children and heirs at law, were non-residents. B. Abell administered on the estate during the pendency of the…