Moss's Appeal from Probate
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from a decree of a probate court accepting the report of commissioners on the insolvent estate of Lydia Riggs, taken to the Superior Court in New Haven county. The court (Sanford, J.,~) dismissed the appeal, and the appellants brought the record before this court by a motion in error. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHinman, C. J.
We think the Superior Court committed no error in dismissing this appeal on the facts appearing on the record. The appeal is taken from the decree of the probate court approving and accepting the report of commissioners on the estate of Lydia Riggs, deceased, and the only reasons of appeal that are assigned .are, first, that the commissioners rejected a portion of the claim of Mrs. Moss, one of the appellants, presented against the estate, and, second, that they allowed certain other claims which should have been rejected. The case is therefore precisely like that of Bennett's Appeal from…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Peck v. SturgesSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1836
- Bennett's Appeal from ProbateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1866
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