Whitney v. Pinney
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by the plaintiff, Edwin C. Whitney, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Hicks, J., made March 18, 1892, refusing a new trial. The plaintiff, Edwin C. Whitney, is the assignee of a judgment recovered August 25, 1888, by Samuel Hill, against Winthrop Young, as administrator of the estate of Ovid Pinney, deceased.
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Appeal by the plaintiff, Edwin C. Whitney, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Hicks, J., made March 18, 1892, refusing a new trial. The plaintiff, Edwin C. Whitney, is the assignee of a judgment recovered August 25, 1888, by Samuel Hill, against Winthrop Young, as administrator of the estate of Ovid Pinney, deceased. Whitney brought this action against Winthrop Young, and against Polly Pinney, Hariett Lonergan, O. P. Buel and others, heirs and next of kin of Ovid Pinney, deceased, seeking to recover from Young personally, and from the heirs and next of kin, a balance of…
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
The respondent in this action, defendant Young, became the administrator, with the will annexed, of the estate of Ovid Pinney, deceased, January 25, 1881. October 15, 1883, on his own application therefor, the proper court examined and allowed his final account, and made its final decree, assigning and distributing the balance of the estate remaining in his hands, and he duly complied with the provisions of said decree by transferring and distributing all of the property to the persons thereto entitled as devisees and legatees. 'Since that time said defendant Young has not been possessed of…
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- Yarrington v. RobinsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1886
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