Supreme Judicial Court of Maine April 15, 1845 (Longfellow v. Patrick)

The opinion of the Court was drawn up by

Shepley J.

The plaintiffs are judgment creditors of the defendant’s intestate. The defendant exhibited evidence, that she had returned an inventory of the estate; that she had obtained an allowance to herself as his widow; that she had settled an account in the Court of Probate; and that the whole amount of the estate contained in the inventory had been