Hicks v. Clark
Supreme Court of Vermont
Book acoount. Referred to an auditor, and heard by the court, upon his report, at the March term, 1868, Peck, J., presiding.
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Book acoount. Referred to an auditor, and heard by the court, upon his report, at the March term, 1868, Peck, J., presiding. Upon the facts stated in the report, the- court rendered judgment for the plaintiff to recover the sum of $800 and the interest on the same from the time the administrator of the estate of W. W. Bliss, in New York, made a final settlement of his administration account, which, the report finds, was about April, 1862; and the court computed interest from May 1,1862. The defend-? ant insisted that the claim was merged in the written contract of May 19,1857, and that the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Barrett, J.
We regard the provisions of our General Statutes, regulating and limiting the prosecution of claims against the estates of deceased persons, as having exclusive reference to the prosecution of claims in the probate courts of our own state, and that they are entirely unaffected, in their application and effect, by the fact that portions of such estates may be proceeded with in other states, and therein such claims might, by claimants residing in this state, be prosecuted successfully in the proceedings in other states. The rights of parties…
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