Clark v. Wilkinson
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEALS from the Circuit Court for Grant County. The plaintiff in the first of these actions is John O. Ciarle, the guardian of Life F. Nash and Alta B. Nash, infant heirs of Robert Nash, deceased; in the second action, Mary C. Burkholder (formerly Mary C. Nash), also an heir of said Robert Nash. The facts are stated in the opinion.
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APPEALS from the Circuit Court for Grant County. The plaintiff in the first of these actions is John O. Ciarle, the guardian of Life F. Nash and Alta B. Nash, infant heirs of Robert Nash, deceased; in the second action, Mary C. Burkholder (formerly Mary C. Nash), also an heir of said Robert Nash. The facts are stated in the opinion. The defendants, the executors of the last will of John Wilkinson, deceased, appealed in each case from the judgment of the circuit court allowing the claim of the plaintiff therein against the estate of their testator. They argued, inter alia, that the liability…
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.
These actions were brought by the respondents by filing claims against the estate of John Wilkinson, deceased, in the county court of Grant county. The commissioners appointed to pass upon the claims against such estate considered the claims presented, and allowed only a part of them. The respondents appealed to the circuit court of Grant county, and that court, after hearing the evidence, allowed the claims to the amount of $3,000, and interest thereon from the last meeting of the commissioners at which the claims might have been allowed in the county court.
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