Carter v. . Lilley

Tbe pleadings in tbe cause in which plaintiffs, as commissioners, were authorized to make sale of tbe locus are not contained in tbe record before us. Even so, it is apparent tbe action was instituted under Chap. 49, P.L. 1933, now Art. 9, Chap. 33 of tbe General Statutes. It is so stated in tbe brief of appellees. That Act, known as tbe Missing Persons Statute, was enacted to provide for tbe preservation and protection of the estate of a person who has disappeared from the community of his residence and whose whereabouts has been unknown for three months or more and cannot, after diligent…