Caulfield v. Green
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover a balance claimed to be due for a piano sold by the plaintiff, brought originally before a justice of the peace and thence by the defendant’s appeal to the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County and tried to .the court, Case, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Action to recover a balance claimed to be due for a piano sold by the plaintiff, brought originally before a justice of the peace and thence by the defendant’s appeal to the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County and tried to .the court, Case, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The complaint alleged the sale and delivery of a piano by the plaintiff to Brooks M. Lincoln, the defendant’s intestate, and that by the terms of the sale a balance of $50 was due the plaintiff at the death of said…
1Opinion of the CourtHamerslby, J.
The letter of the defendant, in connection with other facts found, was not a disallowance of the plaintiff’s claim and a refusal of payment, within the meaning of § 583 of the General Statutes. The disallowance must be expressed in unequivocal terms. Bradley v. Vail, 48 Conn. 375, 385.
The suit was not prematurely brought. Rights of action against a debtor, which the law continues in force after his death,, are, upon grant of administration, demands against the administrator as representative of the deceased, and may be established by suit against him as such representative, and may be…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Grant v. GrantSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1893
- Pitkin v. PitkinSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1829
- Spalding v. ButtsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1825
- Robbins v. CoffingSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1884
- Bradley v. VailSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1880
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- Donnelly v. GarvanSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1930
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