Any creditor of the decedent may represent to the court that the estate is insolvent, and thereupon the executor or administrator and heirs or devisees shall be summoned to answer whether or not it be insolvent. If it shall be found so, like proceedings shall be had as when an estate is represented to be insolvent by the executor or administrator.
Miss. Code Ann. § 91-7-263
Creditor may institute insolvency proceedings
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Greenville Lumber Co. v. Hammett (2004)
Most recently applied in Greenville Lumber Co. v. Hammett (October 2004)
Codes, 1880, § 2055; 1892, § 1940; 1906, § 2114; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1782; 1930, § 1725; 1942, § 624.
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