Alden v. Goddard
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report of facts agreed. " Assumpsit for money had and received, brought under the provisions of E. S., c. 66, § § 13, 14, against the executors on an appeal by them from the decree of the probate court, Cumberland county, accepting the report of commissioners of insolvency on the estate of said Smith, allowing the plaintiff the sum of twenty-four thousand nine hundred and sixty-five dollars and seventy-nine cents. The material facts are fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtAppleton, C. J.
This is an action of assumpsit for money had and received under the provisions of E. S., c. 66, § § 13, and 14, against the defendants as executors on an appeal by them from the decree of the probate court, accepting the report of the commissioners of insolvency on the estate of Smith.
The questions in controversy relate to- certain transactions between Hiram O. Alden, and defendants’ testator, which occurred in 1870. The plaintiff claims as the purchaser of certain demands of said Alden against Smith, at a bankrupt sale of the assets of Alden.
The defendants interpose numerous objections to…
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