Court Opinion

ID: 8341543
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-10-17 23:38:20.761163+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:45:41.125818
License: Public Domain

Nash, J.
In this state it has been settled that the debt of an administrator is not released by his appointment and *591acceptance of the trust, but that his debt becomes assets in his hands and covered by the administration bond. Tracy v. Card, 2 Ohio St., 431. But the case presented by the first defense of Campbell’s answer and the demurrer thereto, is not controlled by this rule. The allegations of this defense, which are admitted to be true by the demurrer, show a cunningly devised scheme, amounting to a fraud on the part of the sole beneficiary of the estate and the administrator to make Campbell responsible for a worthless claim. This scheme cannot be made effective by the courts, and the dem.urrer should have been overruled.

Judgment reversed.