Smith Executor v. Chapman Executor’s Empirical Analysis

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7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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1. “And it is further ordered, considered, and adjudged that judgment shall be, and the same is hereby, entered in favor of said .plaintiff, Geqrge M. Chapman, executor of the last will and’' testament of Eunice Chapman, deceased, nuno pro tuno, upon the said decision and findings of the court as of the 10th day of July, a.d. 1871, against the said George D. Snow in his capacity as .executor of the last will and testament of John Gordon,- deceased, for the sum of $7264.25,-.and costs, taxed at $62.76, to be paid, and enforced-out of the effects of the testad tor,, John Gordon, deceased, with, interest on said: sum of $7264.25 from- said 10th day of July,1871, and that said'judgment be "also certified by this court to the probate court of the' county of Le Sueur, Minnesota, as a claim duly allowed and adjudged against the said estate of John Gordon, deceased.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Borer v. Chapman

2. ““Even if it appear that the executor has received assets, still the judgment or decree should be against him in his representative character, to be levied out of the assets in his hands, when no devastavit is averred or proved, unless it appear that no such assets can be found, in which event the rule is that the amount may, if so ordered, be levied out of his proper goods.” Smith v. Chapman, 93 U. S. 41 , 23 L. Ed. 795 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lewis v. Parrish