Bennett's Appeal from Probate
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from a decree of the court of probate for the district of Danbury, accepting the report of commissioners on the estate of George W. Ives represented insolvent. The appellant had obtained a judgment against the executor of Ives, (80 Conn. 329, and 31 id., 276,) and had presented it to the commissioners on the estate, by whom it was disallowed.
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Appeal from a decree of the court of probate for the district of Danbury, accepting the report of commissioners on the estate of George W. Ives represented insolvent. The appellant had obtained a judgment against the executor of Ives, (80 Conn. 329, and 31 id., 276,) and had presented it to the commissioners on the estate, by whom it was disallowed. The commissioners’ report having been accepted by the court of probate the appellant appealed to the superior court from the decree accepting the report, and the case was reserved by the superior court, upon a special finding of the facts, for the…
1Opinion of the Court
Carpenter, J.'
In this case the appeal is taken, not from the doings óf the commissioners in rejecting the appellant’s claim, but from the decree of the court of probate accepting the commissioners’ report. The statute (Revision of 1866, p. 440, sec. 145,) provides that “ whenever any person shall be aggrieved by the doings of the commissioners in allowing or rejecting a claim upon an insolvent estate, whether of a deceased person or assigned for the benefit of creditors, and the matter in demand shall exceed the sum of seventy dollars, such aggrieved person may, within fifteen days after the…
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