Freeman Appeal from Doings of Commissioners
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from the doings of commissioners upon the estate of H. DrusiUa Mitchell, an insolvent debtor, in allowing a claim against her estate, taken by the trustee thereon to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the court, Prentice, J.; facts found and judgment rendered disallowing the claim, and appeal by the claimant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Appeal from the doings of commissioners upon the estate of H. DrusiUa Mitchell, an insolvent debtor, in allowing a claim against her estate, taken by the trustee thereon to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the court, Prentice, J.; facts found and judgment rendered disallowing the claim, and appeal by the claimant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The claim presented to the commissioners was for $20,000, described as money due in three ways : first, by virtue of an agreement made by H. Drusilla Mitchell and one George H. Mitchell, on March 3d, 1892; second, on a…
1ConcurrenceHamersley, J.
In concurring in the opinion of the court, I wish to emphasize the fact that the proposition cited from the opinion in Cothrens Appeal, 59 Conn. 545, is a dictum upon a question which, as that opinion distinctly states, was not then before the court and could not be decided. The dictum is apparently inconsistent with a dictum in Waterman v. Curtis, 30 Conn. 135, 137, and its correctness is not, as stated in the present opinion, in any manner involved in the decision of this case. The true construction of § 587 of the General Statutes, referred to in Cothren's Appeal and in Waterman v. Curtis,…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Cothren's Appeal from CommissionersSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1890
- Waterman v. CurtisSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1861