Barnes v. Eddy

This is an appeal from a decree of the Court of Probate of the town of Gloucester rejecting the report of commissioners appointed by said court under Gen. Stat. R. I. cap. 175, upon the estate of Edward Cook, deceased. The estate was represented insolvent by the administrator, and the commissioners appointed on the 10th day of June, 1876, and six months were allowed to the creditors to bring in their claims and prove their debts. The commissioners appointed the 11th day of December, 1876, as the time of their meeting to receive the claims, at which time the claims reported by them were…