Waldron v. Alexander

This is an appeal from a judgment in appellee’s favor on a claim presented by him against the estate of his brother, Elijah S. Alexander. The Probate Court allowed the claim for $1,792. From that order the claimant appealed to the Circuit Court, where the cause was tried by the court without a jury, and judgment rendered for $2,400. From the undisputed evidence in the case it appears that in 1884, Henry Alexander, a brother of appellee and of Elijah S., was seriously ill at his father’s house in Brattleboro,- Vermont ; that Elijah, then being on a visit to his parents, induced appellee to…