Morse v. Slason
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an appeal from a decree of the court of chancery, dismissing the orators’ bill. The orators, Stephen Morse, Allen Vail and Micha Vail, in behalf of themselves and other creditors of Hoit Guernsey, late of Poultney, in the county of Rutland, deceased, set forth and charged in their bill of complaint, in substance, that the said Hoit, in his life time, for many years previous to the 8th day of December, 1834, had been in extensive business in manufacturing woollen…
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This was an appeal from a decree of the court of chancery, dismissing the orators’ bill. The orators, Stephen Morse, Allen Vail and Micha Vail, in behalf of themselves and other creditors of Hoit Guernsey, late of Poultney, in the county of Rutland, deceased, set forth and charged in their bill of complaint, in substance, that the said Hoit, in his life time, for many years previous to the 8th day of December, 1834, had been in extensive business in manufacturing woollen goods, buying wool, &c., at said Poultney, and, at the time of his death, owed large debts to the orators and others, and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Redfield, J.
This is an appeal from the court of chancery. The object of the bill is to vacate a sale, claimed, by Slason and Langdon, to have been made to them, by Hoit Guernsey, of certain property, real and personal, during his last illness. Slason is one of the administrators, and has not inventoried nor taken any account of this property, as belonging to the estate. The bill seeks to make him accountable for it, or for its value.
A preliminary question has been made in the case, in regard to the right of the creditors to come into a court of…
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