Hazeltine v. Page
Supreme Court of Vermont
This case was a trustee process brought by Hazelline against Page, as the trustee of -Parker, who was alleged to -be an-absconded or concealed debtor.
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This case was a trustee process brought by Hazelline against Page, as the trustee of -Parker, who was alleged to -be an-absconded or concealed debtor. The suit -ivas commenced December 20th, 1828. It appeared from the disclosure of the trustee that in the fore part of October, 1827, he executed and delivered to Parker a promissory note for nine hundred dollars, payable in Eve years after date in horses, or other property, such as Pagg,j could best spare 5 that afterwards, on the 9th day of the same-month, Hazeltine caused process to be served on him as the trustee af Parker, and on the 10th…
1Opinion of the Court
Hutchinson, C. J.,
delivered - the opinion of the Court.— There appears to be not much in controversy in the present case, except what depends upon the weight of evidence ; and we have no more to do with that, than we should have in any writ of error. And, in this respect, there is no diSerence, whether the action comes up by appeal, or by exceptions to the decision of the county court. We can hold appellate jurisdiction from the county court only to revise their decisions upon matters of law, arising from the facts, in some way placed upon the record. If the disclosure of the trustee is…
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