Mills v. Wildman
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an appeal from a decree of the court of probate, passed on the 26th of March 1844, accepting the report of commissioners on the estate of Issac Mills, deceased, represented insolvent. By the doings of these commissioners, a claim in favour of the estate of Wildman against the estate of Mills, amounting to 2290 dollars, 46 cents, was allowed. The appeal was taken by the executors of Mills.
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This was an appeal from a decree of the court of probate, passed on the 26th of March 1844, accepting the report of commissioners on the estate of Issac Mills, deceased, represented insolvent. By the doings of these commissioners, a claim in favour of the estate of Wildman against the estate of Mills, amounting to 2290 dollars, 46 cents, was allowed. The appeal was taken by the executors of Mills. The claim so allowed was founded on the following writings, which were presented to the commissioners : “ New-Ilawn, June 26th, 1819. On demand, for value received, I promise to pay to Zalman…
1Opinion of the CourtStores, J.
Laying out of view the endorsement by Isaac Mills on the note in question of May 14th, 1824, the effect of which we do not consider it necessary to determine, and resting the case on the writing executed by him, on the 14th of October 1840, we are of opinion, that the report of the commissioners should be affirmed.
The appellants concede, that the promise made to the administrators of Wildman, and contained in the writing last-mentioned, is as effectual to revive the debt evidenced by the note, and to enable them to recover the amount due on it, as it would have been, if made to Wildman, in…
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