Payne v. Logan's administrator

OPINION of the Court, by

Cb. J. Boyie.

The main question in this ease, and indeed the only one which desert es investigation, is whether a person having land lying out. of this state devised to him, is liable at law to the debts of his testator ?

We have no hesitation in deciding this question in the negative. The law making fraudulent devises void, and rendering the devisee liable to an action upon the contract of his testator, was only intemRd to subject specifically the land in the hands of the devisee to the debts of the testator; nor can he be made further or otherwise responsible but by…