Reference for Bava Batra 9:8

נָפַל הַבַּיִת עָלָיו וְעַל אָבִיו אוֹ עָלָיו וְעַל מוֹרִישָׁיו, וְהָיְתָה עָלָיו כְּתֻבַּת אִשָּׁה וּבַעַל חוֹב, יוֹרְשֵׁי הָאָב אוֹמְרִים, הַבֵּן מֵת רִאשׁוֹן וְאַחַר כָּךְ מֵת הָאָב, בַּעֲלֵי הַחוֹב אוֹמְרִים, הָאָב מֵת רִאשׁוֹן וְאַחַר כָּךְ מֵת הַבֵּן, בֵּית שַׁמַּאי אוֹמְרִים, יַחֲלֹקוּ. וּבֵית הִלֵּל אוֹמְרִים, נְכָסִים בְּחֶזְקָתָן:

If the house fell upon him and his father, or upon him and his heirs, and there were (binding) upon him (the son) the kethubah of his wife and (the claims of) a creditor — The heirs of the father say: "The son died first, and then the father" [and the creditor cannot exact payment from this (the father's) property, for the son never acquired it], and the creditors say: "The father died first, and then the son" [and the property fell in that period (between their deaths) to the son, and it is "bound" for payment of his wife's kethubah and (for payment) of the creditors] — Beth Shammai say: They divide. [For they hold that a bill awaiting collection is considered collected, so that the heirs of the father and the creditors are both muchzakim ("holders"), for which reason they divide.] And Beth Hillel say: "the property remains in its status of (adverting to) the heirs, so that it is regarded as "held" by them. And it devolves upon the creditor, who desires to divest them of it to bring proof that the father died first.]

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