When such suit shall be fully matured for hearing and the report of any such commissioner shall have been confirmed, and the provisions of the preceding section shall have been fully complied with, the court may decree a distribution of the proceeds of such real estate among such of the creditors of the deceased as shall have shown themselves entitled thereto according to their several priorities, if any; which decree, so made, shall be a bar to the claim of any creditor of the deceased, or lienholder on real estate of the deceased, who has failed to present his claim to the commissioner as required by such notice, except that if a surplus remain after such distribution, the creditor or lienholder so failing may share in the same upon proving his claim at any time before a final decree is made in such suit. But if he fail to present his claim for adjudication before such final decree, he shall be forever barred of all right to participate in the proceeds of such real estate, so far as the other creditors of the said deceased, who have not so failed, are concerned.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 44. Administration of Estates and Trusts
Article 8. Real Estate of Decedents
§44-8-2. Rents, Profits or Proceeds of Sale to Be Paid to Persons Entitled
§44-8-3. Real Estate to Be Assets for Payment of Debts
§44-8-4. By What Court Assets Administered
§44-8-5. Liability of Heir or Devisee for Real Estate Conveyed; When Such Real Estate Not Liable
§44-8-7. Suit to Subject Real Estate to Payment of Debts; Parties; Evidence
§44-8-8. Reference to Special Commissioner and Publication of Notice to Creditors in Such Suit
§44-8-9. Decree of Distribution; Claims Barred When
§44-8-10. No Costs Recoverable In, and Injunction Against, Second Suit