Miller v. Whittier
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Bill in Equity. The substance of the bill may be found in 32 Maine, 203. On answers and proof, the case was again before the Court and considered in 33 Maine, 521. At that hearing, a master was appointed to state an account with Whittier, since November 17, 1845, exhibiting the sums due to him by the contract, and the claims he justly has against the estate, for services and expenditures; what property, securities and means, including rents and profits, he has received from…
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Bill in Equity. The substance of the bill may be found in 32 Maine, 203. On answers and proof, the case was again before the Court and considered in 33 Maine, 521. At that hearing, a master was appointed to state an account with Whittier, since November 17, 1845, exhibiting the sums due to him by the contract, and the claims he justly has against the estate, for services and expenditures; what property, securities and means, including rents and profits, he has received from it; the conveyances made, and the amounts received and receivable therefrom. Also to state the amounts due, bona fide,…
1Opinion of the Court
Rice, J. —
This case which has been before this Court on two former occasions, 32 Maine, 203 and 33 Maine, 521, now comes up on exceptions to the rulings of the Judge before whom the report of the master was presented, with the exceptions filed to that report by several parties to the bill. The exceptions to the rulings of the Judge below, present for the consideration of this Court, all the exceptions which were taken to the report of the master.
The instructions under which the master acted, were “ to state an account with Whittier since Nov. 17, 1845, exhibiting the sum due to him by the…
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