Barnes v. Mowry

This is an appeal from a decree of the Court of Probate of the town of Pawtucket, receiving and confirming the report of commissioners on the estate of Spencer B. Mowry, which has been represented to be insolvent. The only reason given for the appeal is that the commissioners allowed the claim of Belinda S. Mowry, "which was illegal, and which the commissioners ought not to have allowed." We do not think the reason is sufficient. The statute makes the commissioners the primary tribunal for the trial of claims against the estate. They report their adjudications to the Court of Probate. But no…