Saunders v. Denison
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an appeal from the doings of the commissioners on the estate of Richard Woodbridge, deceased, in allowing, against that estate, a claim of 10,000 dollars, in favour of Peleg Denison, executor of the will of said Woodbridge.
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This was an appeal from the doings of the commissioners on the estate of Richard Woodbridge, deceased, in allowing, against that estate, a claim of 10,000 dollars, in favour of Peleg Denison, executor of the will of said Woodbridge. The appellant, in his reasons of appeal, stated, that the commissioners had, by their report, found, that said Wood-bridge was indebted to Denison, the appellee, by his bond, dated the 25th of April, 1843, by which he bound himself to pay to the appellee the sum of 10,000 dollars, on condition that he should alter, revoke or destroy his will. The appellant then…
1Opinion of the Court
Church, Ch. J.
A motion was made in the superior court, that this appeal should be erased from the docket.
The first reason suggested, in support of the motion, is, that the records of the court of probate do not show any interest in the appellant in the decree or order appealed from ; and therefore, the appeal is void. But, as we understand the record, this reason is not true in fact. It appears that the appeal was taken by the appellant, as a creditor of the deceased, from the doings of the commissioners on his estate, in allowing the sum of ten thousand dollars, as a debt due from the estate…
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