Shaw v. Kent

Shaw, the administrator [of James Kent, deceased], filed his account for final settlement of the estate, showing a balance in his hands for distribution among the heirs of the decedent, a part of which had been paid to Susannah Price and Rachel Prater, two of the heirs, and claiming, in right of his wife, another heir, a part of the sum in his hands. James Kent, jun., the appellee, and remaining heir, appeared and contested the account, and set up a claim to the entire amount in the hands of the administrator, on the ground that the other heirs had been advanced, in the lifetime of the…