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12 Ala. 628

Gaffney v. Williamson

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided June 15, 1847

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1847-06-15

The defendant in error, having reported the estate of his intestate insolvent, and having made his final settlement of the estate, objected to the claim of the plaintiff in error, because it was not filed with the clerk of the court within six months, after the report of insolvency, as required by law ; and thereupon the plaintiff introduced the clerk of the court, who deposed, that the attorney of plaintiff placed the claim in controversy, and several others with him. about…

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ORMOND, J.

¶1In our judgment, this claim must be considered as having been filed in proper time. It appears it was left with the clerk before the estate was reported insolvent, for the purpose of presentation to the administrator, and was by him presented; and upon the estate being declared insolvent, was by the clerk placed among the papers showing the insolvency of the estate. The act of 1843, (Clay’s Dig. 194, ■§> 10,) requires the clerk to indorse on the claim the day on which it was filed, and to keep a docket, or list of the elaims so filed ; but the omission of this duty on the part of the clerk, cannot prejudice any creditor, who deposits his *630claim with the clerk, when an estate is declared insolvent. It can make no difference, that this claim was handed to the clerk before the estate was declared insolvent. That he considered it placed in his hands for that purpose, is evident, from the fact that he placed it ,on file among the papers.showing the insolvency of the estate. This unequivocal act, he cannot be allowed to controvert, by saying he did not consider it as filed, or by his omission to indorse the fact upon it, or to transfer it to his docket if he kept one.

¶2From this it results, that the orphans’ court erred in its judgment, which must be reversed, and the cause remanded.

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