Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court June 15, 1860 (Savage v. Winchester)

Hoar, J.

In the first of these cases, the wife of a deceased debtor, whose estate is represented insolvent, and who had joined with her husband in a mortgage of her separate estate *454to secure one of his debts, having paid the debt since his decease, for the purpose of exonerating her estate, now seeks to prove it against his estate before commissioners of insolvency.