Legal Opinion

Starkey's Appeal From Commissioners

Supreme Court of Connecticut

Decided June 1, 1891PublishedCited by 13 opinions

Appeal from the doings of commissioners on the insolvent estate of Asa T. rooks, deceased; taken to the Superior Court in Hartford County, and tried to the jury before Fenn, J. Verdict for the appellee, and appeal by the original appellants. The case is fully stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.

Asa T. Brooks died intestate. His estate is in process of settlement as an insolvent estate. Mary J. Powers presented claims against the estate, amounting to over §6,000, which were allowed. His heirs at law appealed to the Superior Court. In that court, under the rule, the appellee filed a statement of the amount and nature of her claim, and of the facts upon which it was based, as follows:—

“ Estate of Asa T. Brooks to Mary J. Powers, Dr. To damages for failure of said Asa T. Brooks to perform agreement made by him to leave said Mary J. Powers, by will or otherwise, all the property and…

2Cited by13 opinions

  1. Grant v. GrantSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1893
  2. Graybill v. PlantSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1951
  3. General Hospital Society v. New Haven Rendering Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1907
  4. State v. CampbellSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1918
  5. State v. BuonomoSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1914

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