Valente v. Porto
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for an accounting and for judgment for the amount found due thereon, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County where the cause was referred to a committee who heard the parties and reported the facts; to the committee’s report the plaintiff filed a remonstrance to which the defendant demurred and the court, Curtis, J., sustained the demurrer, accepted the report, and rendered judgment that the plaintiff was indebted to the defendant in the sum of $13,877.40,…
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Action for an accounting and for judgment for the amount found due thereon, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County where the cause was referred to a committee who heard the parties and reported the facts; to the committee’s report the plaintiff filed a remonstrance to which the defendant demurred and the court, Curtis, J., sustained the demurrer, accepted the report, and rendered judgment that the plaintiff was indebted to the defendant in the sum of $13,877.40, and from this judgment the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtRokaback, J.
The only question here presented is as to the sufficiency of the plaintiff’s remonstrance. The remonstrance is based upon nine different grounds. Paragraphs 1, 3, 5-9, state, in substance, that the evidence did not warrant the conclusion of the committee. More in detail, paragraph 3 states that certain items constituting the amount of $8,306.91 and contained in the report, “were not proven by any certain, definite, [or] positive evidence.” In paragraph 5 of the remonstrance it is averred that a certain payment of $5,400 “is not under the evidence a charge against the plaintiff and was not…
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