Davenport v. Richards
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action on a probate bond, executed by the defendants, executors of Jesse Richards deceased, to Benjamin Isaacs, Esq., then judge of probate. The action was prosecuted, by the present plaintiff, as his successor in office. The bond and condition were in the form prescribed by statute. The defendants pleaded performance generally.
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This was an action on a probate bond, executed by the defendants, executors of Jesse Richards deceased, to Benjamin Isaacs, Esq., then judge of probate. The action was prosecuted, by the present plaintiff, as his successor in office. The bond and condition were in the form prescribed by statute. The defendants pleaded performance generally. The plaintiff, in his replication, stated, that the court of probate, on the 1st of January, 1840, appointed appraisers to appraise the estate of said Jesse Richards, according to its value, yet the executors did not within the time limited in the…
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, J.
The question arising on the demurrer in this case, is, whether the executors on the estate of Jesse Richards, have been guilty of the alleged breach of their bond to the judge of probate, in not procuring an order for the distribution or payment of the amount clue on the notes executed by one of the executors to the said Jesse. It appears, that at the decease of said Jesse, one of his executors was indebted to him on two promissory notes, executed by said executor to *316him in his life-time, each for the sum of five hundred dollars, one being payable in one year after his death, and the other in…
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