Sturges v. Peck
Supreme Court of Connecticut
IN ERROR. This was an appeal from an order or decree of the court of probate for the district of Norwalk, accepting the report’of commissioners upon the estate of Levi Taylor, an insolvent debtor, who had assigned his property for the benefit of his creditors, pursuant to the statute. [See 11 Conn.
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IN ERROR. This was an appeal from an order or decree of the court of probate for the district of Norwalk, accepting the report’of commissioners upon the estate of Levi Taylor, an insolvent debtor, who had assigned his property for the benefit of his creditors, pursuant to the statute. [See 11 Conn. Rep. 420.] The appellants stated, as reasons of appeal, that Henry Dutton and Samuel Sturges, Esqrs., were appointed, by the court of probate, commissioners on Taylor's estate ; that Eras-tus Sturges exhibited to these commissioners a claim against that estate, amounting to 33 dollars, 98 cents,…
1Opinion of the CourtChurch, J.
The appeal in this case was taken from an order of the court of probate accepting the report of commissioners upon an insolvent estate. When this case was under our consideration, on a former occasion, (11 Comí. Rep. 420.) we held, that it was competent for a court of probate to make such an order ; and of course, that it might be appealed from. The same principle had essentially been determined before, in the case of Stoddard v. Moulthrop, 9 Conn. Rep. 503.
The case of Stoddard v. Moulthrop also settled it, that a court of probate had no power to appoint a brother by marriage of a creditor of…
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