Gay's Appeal From Probate
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from a probate decree denying the application of the appellants for the appointment of an administrator de bonis non on the estate of Samuel S. Cowles, deceased; taken to the Superior Court in Hartford. County. The court (.Robinson, J.,') made a finding of the facts and reversed the decree. of the probate court, and the original' appellees appealed to this court. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtSeymoub, J.
In the year 1873 Augustus Ward, William Gay, W. M. Wadsworth, Samuel S. Cowles, and five others, signed a bond to secure a bank against any loss from its discount of notes- for-a manufacturing company. In 1888 the company failed, and the bank sued William Gay upon the bond, recovering a judgment, which was paid by the executors of Mr. Gay, who had died, and by Mr. Wads-worth, equally, about June 1st, 1889.
The executors of Mr. Gay and Mr. Wadsworth then brought a bill in equity against the administratrix of Augustus Ward, which is now pending, in which it is alleged that the other five signers…
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