Wheeler's Appeal from Probate
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from the doings of commissioners on the estate of George B. Wheeler, deceased, in allowing a claim of one Antoinette M. Wheeler; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County.
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Appeal from the doings of commissioners on the estate of George B. Wheeler, deceased, in allowing a claim of one Antoinette M. Wheeler; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County. The report of the commissioners was returned to the probate court on the first day of February, 1877, and the appeal was taken on the 12th day of April, 1877, and to the Superior Court to be holden on the 2d Tuesday of September, 1877. The appellee pleaded in abatement — 1st, that the appeal was improperly taken to that term of the court; and 2d, that it was taken more than twenty-one days after the return of…
1Opinion of the CourtLoomis, J.
The commissioners on the estate of George B. Wheeler deceased, allowed a claim in favor of the respondent, amounting to thirteen thousand nine hundred and eight dollars, and made and filed their report in due form in the probate court on the first day of February, 1877, and no appeal was taken from the doings of the commissioners within the twenty-one days limited by the law then existing.
But the legislature, upon the petition of the appellant and' a hearing of the case, by joint resolution approved March 22d, 1877, passed the following special act:—
“ General Assembly, January Session, 1877;…
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