11-7-67 - Balance of mutual dealings on death of one party. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 11-7-67. Balance of mutual dealings on death of one party.
 

Where there shall have been mutual dealings between two or more persons, and one or more of them shall die before an adjustment of such dealings, the lawful demands of such parties against each other shall be a good payment, or setoff, to the amount thereof, notwithstanding the estate of one or more of such deceased persons shall be insolvent; and only the balance due shall be the debt. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 59, art. 10; 1857, ch. 61, art. 99; 1871, § 602; 1880, § 1552; 1892, § 689; 1906, § 747; Hemingway's 1917, § 530; 1930, § 539; 1942, § 1483.