Sec. 269. CREDITORS MAY SUE DISTRIBUTEES  


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  • Any creditor of an estate withdrawn from administration whose debt or claim is unpaid and is not barred by limitation may sue any distributee who has received any of the estate, or he may sue all the distributees together, but no one of such distributees shall be liable beyond his just proportion according to the amount of the estate he shall have received in the distribution.

Acts 1955, 54th Leg., p. 88, ch. 55, eff. Jan. 1, 1956.