Sacket v. Mead
Supreme Court of Connecticut
THIS was an action of debt on bond against the defendant, as administrator of the goods and estate of Isaac Holmes, jun. deceased.
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THIS was an action of debt on bond against the defendant, as administrator of the goods and estate of Isaac Holmes, jun. deceased. The defendant pleaded in bar, that the estate was represented insolvent; that commissioners were appointed; that a time was limited for the creditors to exhibit and prove their claims; that the commissioners entered upon the duties of their appointment, gave due notice to the creditors, and, at the expiration of the time limited, made their report to the court of probate containing a list of all the claims by them allowed; that their report was accepted; that the…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
This record presents the claim of a creditor, on an estate which had been proceeded with and settled as insolvent, who had not made out his claim with the commissioners, before the expiration of the time limited, and now rests his title to recover, on shewing further estate not before discovered or put into the inventory.
The action is against the administrator in common form, upon the debt thus barred. In bar of this action, the administrator pleads the settlement of the estate, as an insolvent estate, in the court of probate; and the neglect of the plaintiff to make out his claim with the…
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