Chickering ex rel. Hartshorn v. Brooks
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was a petition in chancery and was heard before Eowell,. Chancellor, at the June Term, 1888, on bill, answer, master’s report and exceptions of the defendants thereto. No copy of the pleadings has been furnished; the reporter. From the master’s-report it would appear that in' February, 1887, the oratrix was adjudged an insane person, and B. D. Hartshorn appointed her guardian. The subsequent November Eoxana died, leaving a will, which was admitted to probate.
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This was a petition in chancery and was heard before Eowell,. Chancellor, at the June Term, 1888, on bill, answer, master’s report and exceptions of the defendants thereto. No copy of the pleadings has been furnished; the reporter. From the master’s-report it would appear that in' February, 1887, the oratrix was adjudged an insane person, and B. D. Hartshorn appointed her guardian. The subsequent November Eoxana died, leaving a will, which was admitted to probate. One Ora Drew was-appointed her administrator, with the will annexed, and as such was, at the December Term, 1887, admitted to…
1Opinion of the Court
*561The opinion of the court was delivered by
Yeazey, J.
The defendant excepted to the report of the master -first because he admitted oral evidence of an agreement bv the defendants to give the oratrix, Eoxana Chiokering, a mortgage or deed of the Harris farm as security for the $200 and the Moren cy notes and mortgage which the defendants had the 'benefit of in the purchase and payment of the Harris farm.
In the decree of the Chancellor this exception was sustained, and we think correctly. Oratrix’s counsel claim that the evidence could not properly be excluded because the issue between' the…
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