Carver v. Wells

The plaintiff, in the District Court, obtained judgment by default against the defendant, as executrix of the will of Albert A. Pierce, late of Providence. Execution issued, upon which the officer made return, under Pub. Stat. R. I. cap. 189, § 10, 1 that he could find no estate whereon to levy the same, and thereupon, pursuant to the same section, he brought this writ of sc ire facias, with a suggestion of waste, against said executrix. At the trial in the Court of Common Pleas, the defendant offered to show in evidence that the defendant as executrix had not and never had in her hands and…