Case ID: ohio-cir-dec_7/html/0039-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Smith, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WILLS.
    [Butler Circuit Court,
    April Term, 1896.]
    Smith, Swing and Cox, JJ.
    Mary Skillman v. Jno. M. Symmes et al.
    Testator has Power to Prevent Legacies, in the Hands oe Administrator, Erom being Seized by Creditors.
    A provision by a testator, in his will, that no part of his estate, given to any of his children, should, by any process of law, be seized or appropriated by creditors before payment to such children, but that same should be paid to such children personally, is legal, and creditors cannot, therefore, obtain i uy part of such legacies, while the same are in the hands of an administrator.
    
      Demar, for Defendant.
    
      Stephen Crane, for Plaintiff.
    Millikin, Shotts & Millikin, for Defendant.
   Smith, J.

We are of the opinion that under the claim of the will of Caladon Symmes relied on by the defendant, the plaintiff is not entitled, in this proceeding, to applicate to the payment of his claim against John M. Symmes, any part of the amount given to the latter by the will of his father, now in the hands of the administrator with the will annexed, of the estate of Caladon Symmes. That the said testator had the right to provide as he did, that no part of any of his estate given to any of his children, should by any process of law be seized or appropriated by a creditor before payment to such child, but that the same should only be paid to such child personally.

This view is sustained by the following cases cited by counsel for defendant:

22 Redfield on Wills, 290, sec. 19; 19 Atlantic Rep., ’383; 23 Atlantic Rep., 383.