Newell v. Newell
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an appeal from a decree of the probate court, upon a claim for advancements made by John Newell, deceased, in his lifetime, to Heman H. Newell, a son of the said John.
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This was an appeal from a decree of the probate court, upon a claim for advancements made by John Newell, deceased, in his lifetime, to Heman H. Newell, a son of the said John. In the probate court, Joseph M. Newell and others, representatives of Orren Newell, deceased, who was a son of the said John Newell, claimed and alleged that the said Heman had been advanced by the said John in his lifetime, to the full amount of the said Heman’s share of the said John’s estate, in the manner following, viz : “ that the said John, in “ his lifetime, to wit: on the sixth of October, 1836, by his “deed…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Bennett, J.
This case comes before this court, by an appeal from the decree of the court of probate.
It seems that John Newell, in his life time, conveyed by two certain deeds to his son, Hernán H. Newell, certain lands for the consideration, as expressed in each of the deeds, of two thousand dollars; and it is insisted that these deeds were executed upon no other consideration than that of love and affection, and that the lauds conveyed, should be adjudged an advancement to this heir. As these deeds, upon their face, purport to have been executed upon-…
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