Carstensen
Carstensen v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Gilbert, J.
(after stating the facts as above). It is assigned as error that the trial court sustained a demurrer to the complaint for want of jurisdiction of the subject-matter of the action, until such time as the probate court should lose jurisdiction over the res. But it is a settled rule that a creditor may not bring an action against the surety on an- executor’s bond until after the final accounting and settlement of the estate in probate. Commonwealth v. Magee, 220 Pa. 201 , 69 A. 805 ; Reed v. Hume, 25 Utah, 248 , 70 P. 998 ; Probate Court v. Chapin, 31 Vt. 375 . Exceptions to that rule are found in eases, some of which are cited by the plaintiff, where claims have been judicially ascertained and by the probate court ordered paid, or where there has been such maladministration of the estate as to constitute a breach of the conditions of the bond, or where the executor has fled from the state, so that jurisdiction cannot be had to compel an accounting. The present case does not come within any of the exceptions, for the claim has not by the probate court been ordered paid. Section 1543, Remington Code, provides: “No claim against the estate shall be paid until the same shall first have…