Case ID: ohio-law-abs_1/html/0201-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "CHITTENDEN, J.:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 148
    SIDDALL v. McNARY et al
    Ohio Court of Appeals, Lucas County
    No. 1238,
    Jan. 29, 1923
    This Opinion Has Been Publbished in The Abstract Only
    CREDITORS — (1) Creditors of a decedent must recover through administration proceedings.
    Appeal from Court of Common Pleas
    Attoyners — John A. Price, for Siddall; M. C. McEnerney, for McNary.
   EPITOMIZED OPINION

CHITTENDEN, J.:

Jesse Siddall and Amanda Siddall owned certain property jointly and Amanda Siddall upon her death devised her half of it. to Jesse Siddall for his life and at his death to "her sons, McNary and Mc-Enerney. Jesse Siddall brought action to partition the estate, setting off his interest in severalty. The sons in a cross-petition claim that they are creditors of Amanda Siddall and that the conveyance to Siddall by devise was made for the purpose of defrauding them. Held:

1.All wills provide for the payment of just debts and even if they did not so provide, payment would be made in administration proceedings. Creditors of a decedent are entitled to no relief by other methods.