Porter v. Baton

This is a probate appeal from the report of the commissioners of the estate of Joseph Pond, disallowing the plaintiffs’ bill for services rendered to Mr. Pond. The commissioners’ report was returned and filed in the probate court for the district of Orleans on December 19, 1955. The plaintiffs filed an appeal in the probate court on January 9, 1956, which was thereafter entered in the Orleans county court. Thereupon the defendant executor filed a motion to dismiss because the attempted appeal was taken and filed more than twenty days after the return of the commissioners’ report. The case is…