Payne's Appeal from the Doings of Commissioners
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from the doings of commissioners upon the estate of Lizzie Ferguson, late of Danbury, deceased; taken to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the court, Thayer, J., upon the defendant’s demurrer to the plaintiff’s amended statement of his first claim, and upon the answer of the defendant to the plaintiff’s second claim; the court sustained the defendant’s demurrer to the first claim, and rendered judgment for the plaintiff upon his second claim, and the…
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Appeal from the doings of commissioners upon the estate of Lizzie Ferguson, late of Danbury, deceased; taken to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the court, Thayer, J., upon the defendant’s demurrer to the plaintiff’s amended statement of his first claim, and upon the answer of the defendant to the plaintiff’s second claim; the court sustained the defendant’s demurrer to the first claim, and rendered judgment for the plaintiff upon his second claim, and the plaintiff appealed for the alleged error of the court in sustaining the demurrer to his first claim. The case is…
1Opinion of the CourtHamersley, J.
Harrison Ferguson and Lizzie Seymour intermarried October 27th, 1891, and cohabited as man and wife until the death of the latter, April 26th, 1893. At the time of the marriage and during its continuance Lizzie Seymour had a lawful husband living; she induced Ferguson to marry her hy falsely representing to him that she was a single woman, and thereafter and until her death caused him to believe that he was her lawful husband; during this cohabitation he, relying on the said representations, furnished her with board, lodging, medical attendance and other necessaries, of the value, in the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Cooper v. CooperMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1888
- Higgins v. BreenSupreme Court of Missouri · 1845
- Mitchell v. HotchkissSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1880
- Potter v. . CarpenterNew York Court of Appeals · 1879
- Price v. . PriceNew York Court of Appeals · 1878
3Cited by18 opinions
- Sullivan v. Associated Billposters & Distributors of United States & CanadaCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1925
- Bortle v. OsborneWashington Supreme Court · 1930
- Woodford v. McDanielsWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1914
- Raymond v. BaileySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1922
- Vragnizan v. Savings Union Bank & Trust Co.California Court of Appeal · 1916
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