Bull's Executors v. Bull's Creditors

delivered this opinion on the 15th December, 1847, but it was suspended until 29th June, 1848,

In the proceedings upon a hill filed by Bull’s executors under the act of 1839, “to regulate the administration and settlement of estates,” (3 Stat. Law, 240,) the question having been presented whether the will of the testator directing certain of his debts to be first paid, can under the statute, be effectual to secure to those debts more than a prorata payment, the decree deciding this question alone, has by consent, been brought before this Court for revision.

The will of the testator made in…