Hunt v. Fay
Supreme Court of Vermont
This cause comes here for adjudication upon an appeal taken from the decision of the commissioners on the estate of Richard Gookin, disallowing the plaintiff’s claim. A statement of the case will be found incorporated into the opinion of the court.
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This cause comes here for adjudication upon an appeal taken from the decision of the commissioners on the estate of Richard Gookin, disallowing the plaintiff’s claim. A statement of the case will be found incorporated into the opinion of the court. In addition to what is stated in the opinion of the court, perhaps it should be noted that the plaintiff avers in his replication to the plea in bar, that the estate of Mr. Gookin, although represented insolvent by the administrator here, was in fact solvent; and at the time the plaintiff exhibited his claims to commissioners, he was domiciled…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Williams, Ch. J.
Richard Gookin having his domicil in Hav-erhill, in the state of New Hampshire, deceased in the year 1826. Letters of administration on his estate were duly granted in the state of New Hampshire. The estate was represented insolvent, and a commissioner was appointed to receive and examine the claims of the creditors to the estate. The present plaintiff, at that time and until after the commissioner had made his return, in pur-, suance of the statute of the state of New Hampshire, was a resident in and had his domicil also in the state…
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