Graves v. Spoon

Citations

• 18 S.C. 386
• 1883 S.C. LEXIS 10

Syllabus

<p>1. A decree different in its result from what the Circuit judge intended it to be, reversed. Cothran, A. A. J., dissenting.</p> <p>2. The claims of creditors of an estate are superior to the claims of distributees, and payments to the latter to the prejudice of the former are justifiable only where the administrator, after a close observance of his prescribed duty, makes such payments in ignorance of outstanding demands, and with assets then of sufficient value to pay all debts. Rules for proper administration stated.</p>