Palfrey v. Harborth

NORVELL, Justice.

This is an interpleader suit. The contest is one between two sets of creditors of a decedent’s estate. The controlling question is one of limitation.

Mrs. Frances Perkins Douglass, independent executrix under the last will and testament of J. S. Douglass, her deceased husband, filed this suit on December 6,1940, and tendered into court the sum of $3,200 for distribution among creditors who might be found justly entitled to receive the same. It was conceded that the material allegations of the bill were true, to-wit: That J. S. Douglass died on September 10, 1932; that his…