Carpenter v. Carpenter

Two appeals involving the same issue have been consolidated. One appeal is from a declaratory judgment and the other is from a judgment affirming an order of the Probate Court. The parties have stipulated that “the parties and the issues of law and fact in the two cases are the same”; that “the demands in the two cases are liquidated and for the same amount”; and that “the result in one will necessarily be the same as the.result in the other.” Cause No. 43,582 is an appeal by defendant from a declaratory judgment fixing the rights of the parties 'with respect to liability for that portion of…