Orcutt's Appeal From Probate
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from a probate decree accepting and allowing an administration account; taken to the Superior Court in Tolland County. A motion to erase the appeal from the docket for want of jurisdiction was denied by the court, (J. M. Hall, J.,) and the case heard on its merits and judgment rendered for the appellant. Appeal by the appellees. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Torrance J.
On the 5th of January, 1885, the court of probate for the district of Stafford passed a decree allowing, approving and accepting the account of Benjamin Rockwell, as administrator of the estate of Eunice O. Rockwell, deceased. John P. Orcutt, an heir at law of the deceased, residing in Iowa at that date, was not present when the decree was passed, nor had he legal notice to be present, and as the law then was, might have taken an appeal therefrom at any time within three years thereafter.
In 1885 a law was passed providing that all probate appeals, by persons not inhabitants of this…
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