Spelman v. Talbot
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill ih equity, filed March 8, 1877, by O. G. Spelman, Lewis Bodman, Henry L. James, Joel Hayden and William Skinner, against the administrators of the estate of Joel Hayden, deceased.
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Bill ih equity, filed March 8, 1877, by O. G. Spelman, Lewis Bodman, Henry L. James, Joel Hayden and William Skinner, against the administrators of the estate of Joel Hayden, deceased. The bill alleged that the defendants’ intestate together with the plaintiffs and Alfred P. Critchlow and the Nonotuck Silk Company, by Lucius Dimock, executed the following instrument : “ Williamsburg, January 26, 1866. To J. E. Sheffield, esquire, Committee of the Northampton and New Haven Railroad Company. The undersigned, representing a large portion of business on the line of the proposed railroad from…
1Opinion of the CourtAmes, J.
The various statutes, limiting the period of time during which executors and administrators are liable to be sued by the creditors of a deceased person, were plainly intended to secure the prompt and early settlement of estates. By the Gen. Sts. o. 97, §'5, this time is limited to two years after due notice has been given, as provided in the first section of the same chapter. Provision is made for the allowance of additional time in case of the discovery of new assets after the expiration of the two years. § 6. And there is a further provision to meet the case of a creditor having a claim…
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