Commonwealth v. Blanton's Executors

■ In the year 1818, one Benedict Costy, an isolated foreigner without heir or distributee, so far as is yet known, died intestate in Franklin county, in this State; and in June of that year, Carter Blanton was qualified as administrator of his goods, which were estimated, according to a reported inventory thereof, at about ‡1150. And that estate seems never to have' been appropriated by the administrator unless he applied it, as may be presumed, chiefly to his own use.

Blanton, the administrator, died in the year 1835, and, by his will, directed his representatives 'to indemnify his surety in…