WILLIAMS v. BENEDICT ET AL.


49 U.S. 107 (1850)

8 How. 107

THOMAS WILLIAMS, ADMINISTRATOR OF BENJAMIN J. BALDWIN, DECEASED, APPELLANT, v. JOHN W. AND WILLIAM BENEDICT, TRADING UNDER THE FIRM AND STYLE OF BENEDICT & BENEDICT.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was argued by Mr. Frederic P. Stanton, for the appellant, and Mr. Featherston, for the appellees.


Mr. JUSTICE GRIER delivered the opinion of the court.

The only question raised in this case depends on the construction of the peculiar statutes of Mississippi. It is, whether a plaintiff who has obtained a judgment against the administrator of an intestate's estate, before it has been declared insolvent, has such a prior lien on the same as will entitle him to issue an execution and satisfy his judgment out of the assets...

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