Manry v. Manry

1. The jurisdiction of a court of ordinary and a court of equity, in respect to bringing proceedings against an executor or administrator for an accounting and settlement, is concurrent.

2. Where a testator directed that the executors reduce the residue of his estate into money for the purpose of paying debts and making distribution among legatees, without designating any time limit so to do, and where the executors held the residue for fifteen years before reducing it to money, a suit filed by one of the legatees within six years after the residue had been reduced to money was not barred by…