Grout v. Chamberlin
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was a writ of error brought by Nathan Grout, as he is administrator de bonis non cum testamento annexa of Elizabeth Grout, deceased. The original action was commenced by the said Elizabeth, in her lifetime, upon a bond of the said Enoch, in the penal sum of 500 dollars, conditioned for the payment of an annuity of 20 dollars per annum.
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This was a writ of error brought by Nathan Grout, as he is administrator de bonis non cum testamento annexa of Elizabeth Grout, deceased. The original action was commenced by the said Elizabeth, in her lifetime, upon a bond of the said Enoch, in the penal sum of 500 dollars, conditioned for the payment of an annuity of 20 dollars per annum. The said Elizabeth dying pending the original suit, Bela Grout, her executor, came in, and was admitted to prosecute, and judgment was rendered for him in his said capacity for the sum of 20 dollars. The error assigned was, that the judgment should have…
1Opinion of the Court
The action was continued to this term, when the opinion of the Court was delivered by
Parsons, C. J.
This is a writ of error brought to correct the errors of a judgment recovered by Bela Grout, as executor of the last will of Elizabeth Grout, deceased, on a bond given to her by the defendant in error. The writ states that since the judgment the said Bela has died, and that the plaintiff in error is administrator de bonis non with the will annexed of the said Elizabeth. And we are called upon to decide whether, from these allegations, the plaintiff has, or has not, entitled himself to this writ…
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