Succession of Durkin

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Manning, C. J.

The sale of John Durkin’s property, which consisted only of certain lots in this city, realized, with a small sum for rents, seventeen hundred and forty dollars. The privileged claims, which by the way are ranked as ‘ ordinary ’ on the tableau of debts, amount to $>394.50, and with taxes, and some debts, really ordinary claims, and a mortgage debt,- swell the total indebtedness to near two thousand dollars, of which the mortgage alone is S1230 principal. The succession is therefore insolvent.

Durkin left a widow in necessitous…