Root v. Lathrop
Supreme Court of Connecticut
' Action to recover the amount of two savings-bank deposits belonging to the estate of Esther Lathrop of Waterbury, deceased, which were alleged to have been taken and converted by the defendant after her decease and before the plaintiff’s appointment as administrator, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in -New Haven County, Roraback, J. ; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal.by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The defendant proceeded under General Statutes, §§ 794-796, to obtain a correction of the finding by the trial court. One of the corrections asked for was made by the court, and the others were refused. He then, more than one week after the finding was filed but within one week after the correction was made and the finding refiled, moved to have the entire evidence and rulings in the case made a part of the record under § 797, and asks this court to correct the finding. The plaintiff objects, upon the ground that the motion was made too late.
Section 797 requires that the motion shall be made…
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