35 A. 1041 | R.I. | 1896
This case is before us on the question of the sufficiency of the allegation in the answers of several of the respondents setting up the statutes of limitations applicable to suits against executors, of which the same benefit is claimed as though they had been made by way of plea. The statutes relied on are Pub. Stat. R.I. cap. 189, § 8, and cap. 205, § 9. These sections provide that no action, except in certain cases not material to the present inquiry, shall be brought against any executor or administrator within one year after the will shall be proved or administration granted, nor after three years from such proof or grant, provided notice of his appointment be given by publication in some public newspaper in this State nearest to the place in which the deceased person last dwelt, or in such other manner as the court of probate shall direct, the periods named to be reckoned from the time of notice.
We think the allegations of the answers setting up these statutes are a good defence to the suit. Sayles v. Bates,
The complainants, however, contend that these statutes are not applicable to the present suit, which is a suit in equity, and rely on Stone v. Corcoran,
The complainants except to the sufficiency of the answers of several of the respondents because they do not specifically set forth in detail under what trusts they hold, and have heretofore held, the shares of stock of the Providence Tool Co. set opposite their names in the fifth paragraph of the bill, and what property and estate they hold, and have heretofore held, under the same trusts. We see no reason for requiring from these respondent trustees the disclosures called for by the complainants. When their liability for the complainants' demands has been established it will be time enough to compel the discovery which the complainants ask.
Exceptions overruled.