Story's Administrator v. Story

The alleged error complained of is, that the court below gave judgment against the estate of the intestate for costs, in allowing the claim of the appellee.

The appellee filed a claim against the estate for two hundred and seventy-two weeks’ work, at three dollars per week, giving credit thereon of divers items, amounting in the aggregate to seventy-four dollars and fifty cents, and closing with this statement, “Amount due, $741.50.” The account was verified by the affidavit of the claimant, as follows: “I, Harriet A. Story, of Underhill, in the county of Chittenden, and State of Vermont, of…