Gamble v. Dunklin & Co.

The Eevised Code, ch. 7, p. 457, provides a system for the settlement of insolvent estates, and the payment of debts, and prescribes the proceedings to be had in such cases. Section 2196 of this chapter provides, that “ every person having any claim against the estate declared insolvent, must file the same in the office of the judge of probate, within nine months after such declara*426tion, or after the same accrues, verified by the oath of the claimant, or some other person who knows the correctness of the claim, and that the same is due, or it is barred forever ; but when a claim is filed by an…