Wells v. Bowling's Heirs

Judge Nicholas

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Upon an issue of no assets, to an action of debt against the heirs of Bowling, an agreed case was framed, shewing, in substance, that there w^s a prior suit against them, by another creditor, for an unliquidated balance *42—the amount claimed being more than the whole a* mount of assets, if any ; and that, by the will of Bowling’s father, there was devised to him and his sister certain slaves, after the death .of their mother, who was devisee for life of the whole estate, with directions to pay debts, maintain and school the children; and that his…