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348 HARVARD LAW REVIEW the best solution is that suggested in a leading Virginia case. There by a creditor's bill all parties interested, including the personal representative, were brought into court and each held liable for his rateable proportion so far as that was possible without injury to the creditor's right. All conflicting rights may then be settled in one suit.^^^ Joseph Warren. Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass. c. 141, § 31; Ohio, Annot. Gen. Code (1912), § io88i; Rhode Island, Gen. Laws (1909), c. 318, § 24; Wisconsin, Stats. (1915), § 3867; McClung v. Sieg, 54 W. Va. 467 (1903). ^ Lewis V. Overby, 31 Gratt. (Va.) 601, 619-20 (1879). See McClung v. Sieg, 54 W. Va. 467, 46 S. E. 210 (1903), where some parties were out of the jurisdiction.