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67 N.H. 300

38 A 464

Moody v. Davis

Supreme Court of New Hampshire

Decided December 5, 1892

Supreme Court of New Hampshire · decided 1892-12-05

Foreign Attachment. Facts found by the court. The plaintiffs seek • to charge the trustees for rents of certain real estate. Writ served on the trustees December 3, 1890. The defendant, as executor of his deceased wife's will, claims the rents. Mrs. Davis died testate February 6, 1890, seized of the real estate from which the rents accrued. She gave to her husband all her property, and nominated him executor.

Relies on Tappan v. Tappan · Simmons v. Goodell · Mercer v. Pike

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Decided 1892-12-05

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Smith, J.

¶1 The giving of a bond by an executor, who is residuary legatee, to pajr debts and legacies (G. L., c. 195, s. 13, Pub. Stats., c. 188, s. 13), has been held to vest in the executor all the estate of the testator not specifically devised. Tarbell v. Whiting, 5 N. H. 63; Batchelder v. Russell, 10 N. H. 39;—and see Tappan v. Tappan, 30 N. H. 50, 68, and Mercer v. Pike, 58 N. H. 287, 288. But this holding was questioned in Heydock v. Duncan, 43 N. H. 95, 101, and Brown v. Brown, 55 N. H. 106, 109.

¶2*301 What the result in this suit would be had there been no insolvency decree, is a question not considered. It must be presumed ■ that when the estate was decreed insolvent the executor gave a new bond, and that the original bond was adjudged insufficient, or was withdrawn by leave of court. The estate could not be administered as insolvent without the executor’s giving a new bond.

¶3 No appeal has been taken from the decree of insolvency. The decree is conclusive as long as it stands. Simmons v. Goodell, 63 N. H. 458. Not having been reversed, the creditors are entitled to the property of the deceased.

¶4 Trustees discharged.

Chase, J., did not sit: the others concurred.
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