392 PRICE v. TYSON.—3 BLAND.

next after passing the said order of Court, to wit: on the second
day of April, in the year 1819, aforesaid, and in the said American
on the 3rd of April aforesaid; and such insertion to be continued
in each of the said newspapers once a week for four successive
weeks, and these defendants caused the said advertisement to be
so inserted in the said two newspapers as directed by the said
* Court more than six months before they made distribution
394 of the assets of the personal estate of the said Nathan
Tyson; which distribution was not made by them until the tenth
day of October, in the year 1821, at which time the whole personal
estate of the said Nathan Tyson in the hands and possession of
these defendants, was by them, under the direction of the said
Orphans' Court, divided and distributed among his personal repre-
sentatives; as by a copy of the account of such distribution duly
certified by the register of wills of Baltimore County under the seal
of the said Orphans' Court, which these defendants herewith ex-
hibit, and pray that the same may be received as a part of this
their answer, will more fully appear. And these defendants further
answering, say, that at the time of the death of the said Nathan
Tyson, and of the insertion and publication of the advertisement
aforesaid in the newspapers aforesaid, and for many years before
and during, and more than a year after the time of the said insertion
and publication, the said John Price was living and residing in the
City of Baltimore; and these defendants are informed and believe,
that the said John Price was a subscriber to the American, one of
the said newspapers, during the said time, and that the same was
delivered each day of publication at the dwelling-house of the said
John Price in the said city, during the whole time of the insertion
therein of the advertisement aforesaid; and these defendants at.
and long before the death of the said Nathan Tyson, and always
since, have resided in the said City of Baltimore. And these de-
fendants jointly and severally aver and declare, that from the time
of the death of the said Nathan Tyson until the time of making
the distribution of the assets of his estate hereinbefore mentioned,
neither the said John Price nor any person on his behalf, exhibited
to these defendants or to either of them, any claim of the said John
Price against the said Nathan Tyson, or made either in writing or
orally, any demand or claim from them, or either of them, as ad-
ministrators as aforesaid, or otherwise for the said John Price
against the said Nathan Tyson; or in any manner conversed with
these defendants, or mentioned to them or either of them any thing
relating to any claim or action of the said John Price against the
said Nathan Tyson.

These defendants further answering, deny that they or either of
them did as administrators or otherwise, apply to any counsel or
attorney in regard to the claim or action of the plaintiff's intestate,
or conversed with any counsel, attorney or other person, or with