Goodnow v. Warren
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract on three promissory notes made by Wales R. Stockbridge, and indorsed by Samuel Gregg, the defendants’ testator. Writ dated January 19,1875. Trial in the Superior Court, before Brigham, C. J., who allowed a bill of exceptions in substance as follows: Samuel Gregg, of Boston, died on October 25, 1872, leaving a will and codicil.
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Contract on three promissory notes made by Wales R. Stockbridge, and indorsed by Samuel Gregg, the defendants’ testator. Writ dated January 19,1875. Trial in the Superior Court, before Brigham, C. J., who allowed a bill of exceptions in substance as follows: Samuel Gregg, of Boston, died on October 25, 1872, leaving a will and codicil. In the codicil Wales R. Stockbridge, of Cambridge, and Edward P. Tileston, of Quincy, were named as executors of the will and codicil, and on October 30, 1872, applied to the Probate Court of the county of Suffolk for letters testamentary to be issued to them…
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
All the notes in suit matured after the decease of Samuel Gregg, the defendants’ intestate. The two first became due after the will of Gregg had been offered for" probate and letters testamentary had been applied for by the executors named therein, but before the time had expired within which notice upon such offer and application had been ordered by the Probate Court. Subsequently to the time when such order of notice was returnable, the executors named declined to accept the trust, and Fisher Ames was then appointed special administrator of the estate of Gregg, and was acting as such when…
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