Nance v. . Powell’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““Legatees, next of kin and creditors of a deceased person can only file a bill against a debtor to the deceased, or his trustee, by charging collusion between the debtor or trustee .and the personal representative, or some other peculiar circumstances, which give a right to the legatees, next of kin or creditors, to -bring that suit which the personal representative might and ought to have brought. Collusion is the usual foundation of such a bill, and without it or some equivalent ground, as the insolvency of the executor or the like it will not lie.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Spivey v. Godfrey