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Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from the doings of commissioners upon the estate of Lyman Latham, deceased, in disallowing a claim presented by the appellant; taken to the Superior Court in Hartford County.
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Appeal from the doings of commissioners upon the estate of Lyman Latham, deceased, in disallowing a claim presented by the appellant; taken to the Superior Court in Hartford County. The appellant, in his reasons of appeal, stated his claim to be “ upon a promissory note made by said Latham in his life time, to wit, on the first day of March, 1871, by which he promised to pay, six months after date, to the order of C. B.' Mahan, agent, two hundred dollars at the First National Bank of Hartford, Ct., for value received in Granite mowing machines, which note was, before the payment thereof, and…
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
The statute, (Rev. of 1866, p. 35, sec. 168,) provides,-that “in suits by or against the representatives of deceased persons, the entries and written memoranda of the deceased relevant to the matter in issue, may be received as evidence; subject in regard to weight and credit to the rules under which the testimony of parties and other interested evidence is received.”
A conversation occurred between the appellant and the deceased on the 18th day of June, 1871, concerning the note in controversy. Of this conversation the deceased made a memorandum upon his slate two days after it occurred, and…
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