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394 Price v.TYSON.
court more than six months before they made distribution of the
assets of the personal estate of the said Nathan Tyson; which
distribution was not made by then 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 defen-
dants, was by them, under the direction of the said Orphans Court,
divided and distributed among his personal representatives \ 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 exhibit, 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 publica-
tion, 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 de-
livered 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 herein before 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
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