Adams v. . Thomas

In this case a decree was heretofore entered in this court in an old equity cause in favor of the plaintiff fora large sum of money against the defendant, then of sane mind, but since and now a lunatic j and at the June term, 1879, of this court, on motion of the plaintiff for execution, after notice to W. L. Hilliard, the guardian of said Thomas, it was held that the plaintiff was entitled to be paid his debt and to have an execution therefor, but only out of any residue of his estate, real and personal, which might be left after the assignment of a sufficiency thereof to maintain the…