Estate of Chesney

By the last will and testament of the above-named decedents she bequeathed to the respondent the sum of five hundred dollars. After the expiration of more than one year from the issuance of letters testamentary the respondent presented to the superior court her petition for a distribution to her of the said legacy. In her petition she alleged that the court had made a decree establishing due notice to the creditors of said estate, and that the time for the presentation of claims had expired, and that all claims that had been presented to and allowed by the executors had been fully paid; that a claim against the said estate for $915 had been presented by her and rejected by the executors, and that an action thereon was still pending and undetermined; that the estate was indebted to no one but herself, and to her only upon her said claim. She also alleged that it appeared from the inventory of the estate filed by the executors that its value exceeded fifteen thousand dollars, and that they had filed an account showing that after reserving a sum sufficient to pay her said claim, in case she should recover thereon, there would remain in their hands a balance of upwards of three…