Legal Opinion

Spitz

Supreme Court of Connecticut

Decided December 30, 1887PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Appeal, by the appellants as creditors of the assigned estate of William M. Pemberton, an insolvent, from the allowance by the commissioners on the estate of a large claim in favor of the wife of the insolvent; taken to the Superior Court in New Haven County. Tbe facts were found by a committee and the claim of the wife, with a small reduction, allowed. The appellants appealed from this judgment. The case is fully stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtBeardsley, J.

This is an appeal from the allowance by the commissioners on the insolvent estate of William M. *185Pemberton, assigned in trust for the benefit of his creditors, of the claim of his wife, Emily A. Pemberton. The appellants are creditors of the estate, whose claim was allowed by the commissioners.

The case was referred by the Superior Court to a committee, from whose report it appears that said William M. and Emily A. were married in January, 1878, she then having a large property, which she had inherited, and he being without property. Between the 1st day of February, 1878, and the 26th day of…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Butler v. BuckinghamSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1813
  2. Comstock's Appeal from CommissionersSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1887

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Courtney v. CourtneySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1938
  2. State v. LittlejohnSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1986
  3. State v. SaiaSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1976
  4. Sexton v. SextonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1905
  5. Corr's Appeal From CommissionersSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1892

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