Hopkins v. Sargent's Estate
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal from the disallowance by the commissioners on the estate of John P. Sargent of a claim presented by Carl S. Hopkins, as trustee for Walter Bartlett and Lizzie Bartlett. Declaration, special assumpsit. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the April Term, 1913, Windham County, Taylor, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, C. J.
• This is an appeal from the disallowance by the commissioners on the estate of John P. Sargent of a claim presented by Carl S. Hopkins, trustee of Walter Bartlett and Lizzie Crozier Bartlett, his wife. John P. Sargent and his wife, Emma, lived at Brattleboro. The latter owned two western mortgages and the notes secured thereby. On September 28. 1898, Mrs. Sargent duly assigned and delivered these notes and mortgages to her husband, John P., and on October 13, 1898, she made and executed the will under which the claimant was appointed trustee of the Bartletts. Two days later she died.
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