Lang v. Brown
Supreme Court of Alabama
Ereor to tbe Chancery Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. J. W. LesesNE. The bill in this case was exhibited by the defendant in error against Mrs. Lang, in her own right, and as administratrix of Willis Lang, deceased, and the other defendants, as distrib-utees, and heirs at law of said intestate.
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Ereor to tbe Chancery Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. J. W. LesesNE. The bill in this case was exhibited by the defendant in error against Mrs. Lang, in her own right, and as administratrix of Willis Lang, deceased, and the other defendants, as distrib-utees, and heirs at law of said intestate. The object of the bill is three-fold; first, to procure a settlement of the estate of Willis Lang, so as to ascertain and set apart the share to which Mrs. Lang, his widow and administratrix, is entitled; secondly, to charge that share with the payment of the claim of the defendant in error, who…
1Opinion of the CourtLigon, J.
— That a judgment creditor has the right to pursue the equitable estate of his debtor, in a court of chancery, and have it set apart to the payment of his debt, is a proposition, which, I apprehend, will not now be controverted ; and that the interest of one of several co-distributees in an intestate’s estate, may be thus charged, was settled by this court, in this case, when it was here at a former term. 14 Ala. 719.
But in order to do this, it is indispensably necessary that the Chancellor should proceed to make a final settlement of the administration, and separate the portion of the…
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