Walton v. Estate of Hall
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an appeal from the judgment of the probate court for the district of Randolph, accepting the report of commissioners upon the estate of Electa Hall, disallowing the claim of the plaintiff. Heard upon the report of a referee at the June term, 1893, Orange county, Thompson, J., presiding. Judgment proforma for the plaintiff to recover one thousand five hundred forty-nine dollars and twenty-eight cents and costs. The defendant excepts.
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This was an appeal from the judgment of the probate court for the district of Randolph, accepting the report of commissioners upon the estate of Electa Hall, disallowing the claim of the plaintiff. Heard upon the report of a referee at the June term, 1893, Orange county, Thompson, J., presiding. Judgment proforma for the plaintiff to recover one thousand five hundred forty-nine dollars and twenty-eight cents and costs. The defendant excepts. John Walton resided in Waitsfield, Vt., up to 1870. At that time he sold out his Waitsfield property and went to Illinois and California, returning to…
1Opinion of the CourtRowell, J.
John Walton died on June 1, 1877, domiciled in this State, leaving a will made when he was domiciled in Illinois. He owned real estate in Illinois at the time of his death, and notes against persons residing there. The will was never probated in this State; but the referee finds that it was “duly executed, proved, and admitted to probate under the laws of Illinois,” and an executor was appointed there. This is equivalent to finding that the court that probated it had jurisdiction in the premises.
The will purports to dispose of all the testator’s property and it makes Mrs. Foster, one of his…
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