Brown v. Slater
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an appeal from a report of commissioners on the estate of Elias Brown, deceased, represented insolvent. The appellant complained of the doings of the commissioners in rejecting her claim against such estate, amounting to 896 dollars.
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This was an appeal from a report of commissioners on the estate of Elias Brown, deceased, represented insolvent. The appellant complained of the doings of the commissioners in rejecting her claim against such estate, amounting to 896 dollars. She was the widow of the deceased, and claimed to be a creditor of his estate, by virtue of the following writing, signed by him: “Farmington, October 15th, 1825. In consideration of Mrs. Nancy Hart's becoming my wife, I promise to give her at the rate of one dollar per week from the date of our marriage, so long as she remains my wife. Elias Brown."…
1Opinion of the Court
Williams, Ch. J.
The defence to the claim of the appellant, is, that this was a contract, which was extinguished, by the marriage of the parties.
By the laws of this state, commissioners upon insolvent estates have the powers of courts of law and of chancery; so that if this claim can be supported before either tribunal, it should have been allowed.
It is doubtless well settled, that if a woman takes for her husband a man who is indebted to her, the debt is thereby discharged or extinguished. Co. Litt. 264. sect. 445. But it is now equally well settled, that if a man about to enter into the…
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- Commonwealth v. RoarkMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1851
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