Weed's Appeal from Probate
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from a decree of a probate court appointing a conservator over the appellant. The case was tried in the Superior Court before Minor, J., and the decree of the probate court reversed. The appellee filed a bill of exceptions and brought the record before this court by a motion in error. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPark, J.
The appellee insists, that the statute of 1868 gave him the right to a jury trial of this case.* An examination of the statute clearly shows that it was designed to regulate civil actions, as its name imports. It repeals the one hundred and twenty seventh section of the act to which it is made an addition. The act repealed was passed to regulate jury trials, and was intended to prevent the great delay of justice from the entering of causes upon the jury list for the purpose of postponing trials. The present act was passed for a similar purpose. It repeals the obnoxious features of the old…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Comstock v. Hadlyme Ecclesiastical SocietySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1830
- Doane v. CumminsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1835
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