65 Miss. 9 | Miss. | 1887
delivered the opinion of the court.
There is a distinction between “ claims ” and liabilities. “All claims ” must be registered, but not all liabilities. The claims required to be registered are those for the proof and registration of which provision is made by § 2027 of the Code; those which might be paid by the personal representative when proved and registered. If the decedent was liable in damages for a trespass or the like or to account as a partner, there could not be any registration of a claim against his estate. This shows the distinction between liabilities and claims, which latter are required to be registered, a distinction pointed out by Sharkey, C. J., in Gordon v. Gibbs, 3 S. & M. 473. To bar the appellants because the claim was not registered, would be to inflict loss on them for not doing what they could not do, and to make them suffer for the negligence of the defendant in the attachment from whom they were trying to coerce payment by the process of garnishment.
Reversed and remanded.