Wilkins v. Ellett

Citations

• 108 U.S. 256
• 2 S. Ct. 641
• 27 L. Ed. 718
• 1883 U.S. LEXIS 1031

Syllabus

<p>Conflict of Laws — Executor and Administrator.</p> <p>When a debt due.to a deceased person is voluntarily paid by the debtor at his own domicil in,a State in which no administration has been taken out, and in which no creditors or next oí kin reside, to an- administrator appointed in another State, and the sum paid is inventoried and accounted for by him in that State, the payment is good as against an administrator afterwards appointed in the State in which the payment is made, although this is the State of the domicil of the deceased.</p>