Dickey v. Corliss
Supreme Court of Vermont
Bill in chancery. Tbe facts set up in this bill, sufficiently appear in tbe opinion of tbe court. Tbe defendant filed a general demurrer, which, was pro forma sustained by Pbcic, Chancellor, at the December term, 1867, of the court of chancery, and the bill dismissed with costs, from which the orator appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
BaRRETT, J.
This is an appeal from a pro forma decree of the court of chancery sustaining a demurrer to a bill. The ground and substance of the bill are that the orator held two valid notes made by the firm of Johnson & Page, at the time that Page died, in March, 1868 ; that Johnson and the firm were insolvent, and Page left ample property; that the orator duly presented said notes to the commissioners on Page’s estate for allowance against said estate, and they examined them and returned them to the orator, who received them and' has kept them ever…
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