American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions : Appeal from Probate
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an appeal to the superior court from the report of commissioners on the estate of William Robbins 2d, disallowing a claim presented by the appellants against the estate.
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This was an appeal to the superior court from the report of commissioners on the estate of William Robbins 2d, disallowing a claim presented by the appellants against the estate. The material facts as found by the court, are as follows: Aaron A. Hosford of Wethersfield, died in the year 1840, leaving a will, by which he appointed the said Robbins his executor, and gave all the residue of his estate, after paying certain legacies, to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Bible Society, the American Tract Society and the American Seamen’s Friend Society, to be…
1Opinion of the Court
Ellsworth J.
We are not able to see why the claim of the appellants against the estate of Mr. Robbins is not just and legal.
In June, 1844, Mr. Robbins, being executor on the estates of Etty Hosford and Aaron A. Hosford, her nephew, settled the estate of the former in probate, and in that settlement credited himself as executor, with the sum of $3,066.98, as paid and belonging to the estate of Aaron A. Hosford, which sum he thereafter held as executor of Aaron, to the uses of his will, after the payment of debts and expenses. Debts to the amount of $647.60 appear to have been paid by him, but…
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