Grey's ex'r v. Lewis
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
■Case 92 — EQUITY APPEAL PROM HICKMAN COURT OP COMMON PLEAS. 1. Story, in his Conflict of Laws, section 534, says that it is better that-we serve and protect the rights of our own citizens than the rights, of others. 2. We insist the foreign creditors must literally comply with the statute, or else they cannot be admitted to prove their demands.
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■Case 92 — EQUITY APPEAL PROM HICKMAN COURT OP COMMON PLEAS. 1. Story, in his Conflict of Laws, section 534, says that it is better that-we serve and protect the rights of our own citizens than the rights, of others. 2. We insist the foreign creditors must literally comply with the statute, or else they cannot be admitted to prove their demands. (Sec. 8,. art. 2, chap. 39, Gen. Stat.) 1. Hie court committed no error in exercising its discretion in permitting-the claims of foreign creditors to be filed and allowed. (Sec. 8, art.. 2, chap. 39, Gen. Stat.) 2. The reason and spirit of the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Lewis
The facts in this case, by agreement stated in- the judgment rendered, are as follows: In 1875 Ben. E.. Grey, a. resident of the state of Alabama, died there testate, and-. May 5, 1875, John P. Grey qualified in Hickman county,. Kentucky, as his executor.
The executor has made no settlement with the county court nor distributed, removed from the state, or paid to creditors, any part of the estate. In fact,, the- personal, assets, if any at all, are inconsiderable. But on the — day of May, 1877, he filed in the Hickman court of common pleas a petition in equity for a settlement o-f the estate…
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