In re Hayes's Estate
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal from a decision, of the probate court granting the petition of William C. Greenlaw, as administrator of the estate of his deceased wife and heir at law of the estate of Elizabeth A. Hayes, to vacate the report of the commissioners on the last named estate, J. IT. Hayes, administrator of said estate, appellant.
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Appeal from a decision, of the probate court granting the petition of William C. Greenlaw, as administrator of the estate of his deceased wife and heir at law of the estate of Elizabeth A. Hayes, to vacate the report of the commissioners on the last named estate, J. IT. Hayes, administrator of said estate, appellant. Heard at the June Term, 1912, Orange County, Miles, -J., presiding, on motion of J. H. Hayes to dismiss the petition for that neither the probate court nor the county court had jurisdiction to grant the relief sought and given. Motion overruled, the judgment of the probate court…
1Opinion of the CourtHaselton, J.
This was an appeal from the decree of the probate court, granting the relief prayed for in a petition hereinafter referred to. In county court, the defendant, Joseph IT. Hayes, moved to dismiss the petition for the reason that neither the probate court nor the county court had jurisdiction to grant the relief sought and granted.
The motion to dismiss was overruled, the judgment of the probate court affirmed, and the cause certified back.
Exceptions were taken, and the cause was passed to this Court. The case has once before been here, but on account of defects in the petition, as it was then,…
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- Heirs of Adams v. AdamsSupreme Court of Vermont · 1849
- Adams v. AdamsSupreme Court of Vermont · 1849
- Boyden v. WardSupreme Court of Vermont · 1866
- Rix v. Heirs of SmithSupreme Court of Vermont · 1836
- French v. WinsorSupreme Court of Vermont · 1852
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