Maughan v. Estate of Burns
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was ail appeal from an order of the Probate Court for the district of Fair Haven, accepting the report of commissioners by which the plaintiff’s claim was disallowed. Trial by jury at the September term, 1891, Thompson, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepts. The plaintiff sought to recover for services and expenditures in caring for the intestate.
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This was ail appeal from an order of the Probate Court for the district of Fair Haven, accepting the report of commissioners by which the plaintiff’s claim was disallowed. Trial by jury at the September term, 1891, Thompson, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepts. The plaintiff sought to recover for services and expenditures in caring for the intestate. Her evidence tended to show that the intestate, Burns, was, during the latter portion of his life, a feeble and sick old man, who required unnsual care and attention; that in 1879 she'went to. live in his…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
ROWELL, J.
This is an appeal from the decision and report of the commissioners on the estate of Michael Burns. Plaintiff presented her claim to the commissioners at $2,789.65. The ad damvrmm in her declaration filed in the Probate Court was $3,500. In the County Court she recovered $3,813.49. Thereupon she moved for leave to amend her declaration by raising the ad damnum to $4,000, which was granted, and she had judgment for the amount of her recovery.
The identical claim presented to the commissioners was the claim tried above. The amount of plaintiff’s…
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