M'Neil v. Administrators of Quince

ila.il, Judge.

Legacies may be recovered two ways inequity or by petition, and a suit will lie at law upon a promise by executors to pay it. lie 15 under a moral obligation to pay it whea he has assets, and that is a consideration. If he promise in consideration

oí forbearance,

though there be no assets, that is e-wuugh. It wbi lie against the administrator of the administrator

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promising: tbe si m paid will be applied as if suit had been against the, promising administrator.