Beach's Appeal from Commissioners
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from the doings of the commissioners on the assigned insolvent estate of the Home Woolen Mills Company, in allowing a claim presented against the estate in favor of Mary C. Crompton, taken by the appellant as a creditor of the estate; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and heard before F. B. Sail, J. The following facts were found by the court.
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Appeal from the doings of the commissioners on the assigned insolvent estate of the Home Woolen Mills Company, in allowing a claim presented against the estate in favor of Mary C. Crompton, taken by the appellant as a creditor of the estate; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and heard before F. B. Sail, J. The following facts were found by the court. The Home Woolen Mills Company, a corporation organized under the joint stock law of this state and located in Hartford, was carrying on business prior to July, 1887, at Beacon Falls, in this state. George Crompton of Worcester,…
1Opinion of the CourtLoomis, J.
The sole question for our determination is, whether the promissory note described in the finding, dated January 15th, 1887, given by the Home Woolen Mills Company, payable six months after date, to Mary Crompton, administratrix (of George Crompton, deceased,) is a good and collectible note.
The commissioners on the assigned estate of the maker, now an insolvent, allowed the claim in full, and their doings were affirmed by the Superior Court upon an appeal by a creditor.
Although numerous errors are assigned as reasons for the appeal to this court, yet the controlling question as it seems to us…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Fosdick v. SchallSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
- Bailey v. HerveyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1883
- Hine v. RobertsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1880
- Day v. BassettMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1869
- Loomis v. BraggSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1882
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- Collins v. LewisSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1930
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- Sager v. SchmidtSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1923
- O'neill-Adams Co. v. EklundSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1915
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