Murphy v. May

FOSTER, Justice.

The question here involved is the right of a distributee (complainant) of the estate of a decedent to an equitable assignment of an encumbrance upon an item of personal property in which he inherited an undivided one-half interest, and the mother and brothers of decedent inherited the other one-half interest, when the complainant has since the death of its owner paid off and discharged the lien by the use of his own funds.

The complainant was the husband of decedent who left no children surviving. He took an one-half interest in the personal property under section 7376, Code of…