Ellison v. Lindsley
New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division
Appeal from decree of Essex orphans court. On state of the case and briefs of counsel.
1Opinion of the Court
THE ORDINARY.
The time within which the claims of creditors of Herbert G. Hoole, a debtor who had assigned his property under our assign-*260raent act, were, by law, to be put in to entitle the holders to a dividend, expired on the 8th of January. The appellants were creditors, and intended to file their claim within the limited period, but being under a mistake, up to the 8th, as to the time when it ended (they supposed it expired on the 18th instead of the 8th), they delayed filing it until the 8th, on which day they discovered their mistake. On that day they mailed their claim, at Philadelphia,…
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