Comstock's Appeal from Commissioners
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from the doings of commissioners on the estate of George W. Day, deceased, in disallowing a claim presented against the estate by the appellant as administrator of the estate of Amelia F. Day, deceased, widow of the said George W. Day; taken to the Superior Court in Fairfield County, and tried to the jury in that court before Stoddard, J. Verdict for the appellant, and appeal by the appellee for error in the rulings and charge of the court.
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Appeal from the doings of commissioners on the estate of George W. Day, deceased, in disallowing a claim presented against the estate by the appellant as administrator of the estate of Amelia F. Day, deceased, widow of the said George W. Day; taken to the Superior Court in Fairfield County, and tried to the jury in that court before Stoddard, J. Verdict for the appellant, and appeal by the appellee for error in the rulings and charge of the court. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLoomis, J.
Between 1867 and 1879 Amelia F. Day, wife of and living with George W. Day, acquired about $2,000 by her personal services, under an agreement between herself, her husband, and her brother, by whom the money was *216paid to her, that it should be of her sole and separate estate, which money she from time to time delivered to her husband. She died in 1879; he died in 1888. W. W. Comstock, the administrator upon her estate, whom we shall call the plaintiff, presented a claim for the repayment of this money to the commissioners appointed to receive, examine and decide upon the claims against his…
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