A creditor may demand, by cross-petition, a personal decree against the assignor for the amount of his debt; but priority of such personal decrees shall not affect the distribution of the assigned effects, or the proceeds thereof.Codes, 1892, § 122; 1906, § 126; Hemingway's 1917, § 113; 1930, § 116; 1942, § 304.
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