Brown v. Crafts
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. Judgment for plaintiff. Debt on bond to the judge of probate of Piscataquis County, on the application of Hattie Eveletli widow of John H. Eveleth late of Greenville in said county, deceased. The suit was in common form in such cases against the executor and the American Surety Company of New York which furnished the bond. The plea was the general issue with a brief statement of full performanee.
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On report. Judgment for plaintiff. Debt on bond to the judge of probate of Piscataquis County, on the application of Hattie Eveletli widow of John H. Eveleth late of Greenville in said county, deceased. The suit was in common form in such cases against the executor and the American Surety Company of New York which furnished the bond. The plea was the general issue with a brief statement of full performanee. The plaintiff filed a counter brief statement setting out, in substance, the failui’e of the executor to return a true and perfect inventory of the testator’s estate. The testator in his…
1Opinion of the CourtPeabody, J.
This is an action of debt on a probate bond commenced in the name of Calvin W. Brown, Judge of Probate for the County of Piscataquis, State of Maine, against Arthur A. Crafts, executor of the will of John H. Eveleth, late of Greenville, in said county, deceased, testate, and, American Surety Company, surety on his official bond, by Hattie Eveleth, widow of the testator. It is before the law court on report.
The testator died on the seventh day of November, 1899, leaving a widow, Hattie Eveleth, and Rebecca W. Crafts, a daughter by a former wife. The will was admitted to probate on the eighth…
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