Case Name: In the matter of Randall, an absent debtor
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1804-02
Citations: 1 Cai. 513
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the matter of Randall, an absent debtor.
Judges: 
Reporter: Caines' Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 648–648

Head Matter:
In the matter of Randall, an absent debtor.
If the trustees of an absent debtor’s estate admit there will be a surplus after payment of all demands, the court will, on petition, order a part to be paid to the debtor, or his agent.

Opinion:
The attorney of the debtor, who was still abroad, applied to have the sum of five thousand five hundred dollars paid to them by the trustees of the creditors, on a petition stating, that after payment of all demands then established, and keeping in hand a sufficient sum to answer any which might appear, there would remain, of the money, now in the Manhattan bank, to the credit of the debtor's estate, a very large surplus.
These facts being admitted by the trustees, the Court ordered according to the prayer of the petition.