Atkins v. Atkins
Supreme Court of Vermont
Chancery. At the March term, 1899, Chittenden county, before Taft, Chancellor, the case came on for hearing under á mandate of the supreme court and the report of the master filed in pursuance thereof; whereupon it was adjudged that the oratrix recover of the defendant the sum of $4,719.96 with interest since March 8, 1899, which the defendant was to pay within sixty days with costs, and in default thereof the notes and mortgage described in the bill were to become the…
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Chancery. At the March term, 1899, Chittenden county, before Taft, Chancellor, the case came on for hearing under á mandate of the supreme court and the report of the master filed in pursuance thereof; whereupon it was adjudged that the oratrix recover of the defendant the sum of $4,719.96 with interest since March 8, 1899, which the defendant was to pay within sixty days with costs, and in default thereof the notes and mortgage described in the bill were to become the property of the oratrix in payment pro tanto of the sums decreed. The oratrix appealed. One contention of the oratrix was…
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
This case does not involve the settlement of the estate of Hiram Atkins, deceased, now pending in the probate court. Whatever maybe the rights of the oratrix in the settlement of that estate, it is left for that court to determine.
The right of the oratrix to the $5000 received on policy No. 156,000 issued by the New York Life Insurance *423Company and to $684.94 received on policy No. 4967 issued by the National Life Insurance Company, and the manner in which the defendants should account therefor, was determined when this case was before this court as reported in 70 Yt. 565.
The only question for…
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