Smith v. Burton
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal from an order of the court of chancery for the county of Franklin at the April term, 1895, directing the sale of certain receivership property, Rowell, chancellor. Edward A. Sowles and Margaret B. Sowles appeal. The opinion states the case. After the decree of the probate court neither the legatees nor creditors of Hiram Bellows had any lien upon this property. Bellows v. Sowles, 57 Vt. 411; Weeks v. Sowles, 58 Vt. 696; Witters, Pec., v. Sowles, Exr., et al., 32 Fed.
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Appeal from an order of the court of chancery for the county of Franklin at the April term, 1895, directing the sale of certain receivership property, Rowell, chancellor. Edward A. Sowles and Margaret B. Sowles appeal. The opinion states the case. After the decree of the probate court neither the legatees nor creditors of Hiram Bellows had any lien upon this property. Bellows v. Sowles, 57 Vt. 411; Weeks v. Sowles, 58 Vt. 696; Witters, Pec., v. Sowles, Exr., et al., 32 Fed. Rep. 130, 135 ; Sowles v. Witters, Pec., 39 Fed. Rep. 403, 408 ; Carbell v. Hofkins, 41 Vt. 250. The court having…
1Opinion of the CourtRoss, C. J.
The defendants, Edward A. Sowles and Margaret B. Sowles, his wife, filed a motion for an appeal from the decree of the chancellor authorizing a sale of the property involved in this litigation, now in the hands of the receiver. The chancellor denied the motion. It is unnecessary to consider whether the chancellor, should have allowed the appeal. If the decree was one from which an appeal could be taken, the motion brought the case before this court. The solicitors for the orators and for defendant Burton, the parties asking that a sale of the property be decreed, do not now oppose the…
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