Bidwell v. Beckwith
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action by an executor to compel the defendant to contribute to the payment of a debt accruing after an alleged distribution of the assets of the estate, or for equitable relief, brought to and tried by the Superior court in Hartford County, Curtis, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $1,950, and appeal by the defendant.
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Action by an executor to compel the defendant to contribute to the payment of a debt accruing after an alleged distribution of the assets of the estate, or for equitable relief, brought to and tried by the Superior court in Hartford County, Curtis, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $1,950, and appeal by the defendant. On July 30th, 1902, Mrs. Bidwell died, leaving a will by which she appointed her husband, Jasper H. Bidwell, plaintiff herein, as executor, and gave to him the life use of her large estate and the remainder to the defendant, with the privilege to her…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The assessments were lawfully ordered by the Minnesota court and constituted lawful claims against the estate of Mrs. Bidwell, enforceable so far as properly presented. The claim originating in the first assessment, ordered in 1902, against her estate, accrued within the time limited for presenting claims against the estate, and was not presented within that period to the executor, and so the receiver became “forever debarred of his demand against said estate^” General Statutes, § 326.
The claim originating in the second assessment, ordered in 1907, was duly presented against the estate by the…
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