In re Peck's Estate
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal from a decree of tbe probate court distributing the testate estate of Harriet C. Peck, William C. Peck, one of the legatees, appellant. The issues made by the pleadings are stated in the opinion. Trial by jury at the March Term, 1909, Chittenden County, Taylor, J., presiding.
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Appeal from a decree of tbe probate court distributing the testate estate of Harriet C. Peck, William C. Peck, one of the legatees, appellant. The issues made by the pleadings are stated in the opinion. Trial by jury at the March Term, 1909, Chittenden County, Taylor, J., presiding. At the close of all the evidence the court submitted the special questions recited in the opinion, directed how the jury should answer them, and rendered judgment on the directed special verdict, affirming the decree of the probate court. The appellant excepted. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
This is an appeal by a legatee from a decree of the probate court for the district of Chittenden, making final distribution of the estate of Harriet C. Peek, who died testate and without issue. The essential facts are so fully shown by the two cases heretofore passed upon by this Court,-Clark v. Peck’s Exrs., 79 Vt. 275, 65 Atl. 14, and In re Peck’s Est., 80 Vt. 469, 68 Atl. 433,—that they need not be here recited. When the latter ease was remanded, final judgment was entered in the county court in favor of the executors of Edward W. Peck. This was pursuant to a stipulation, which, in effect,…
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