Case Name: Barker v. Wales
Court: Connecticut Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1791-03
Citations: 1 Root 265
Docket Number: 
Parties: Barker v. Wales.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 265–265

Head Matter:
Barker v. Wales.
A creditor to an insolvent estate cannot be a commissioner.
Appeal from an order of the Court of Probate in appointing commissioners and accepting their report on the estate of Nathaniel Wales, Esq.
Reasons for appealing were — That one of the commissioners was a creditor to said estate and had a large sum allowed him; and that said commissioners had disallowed a jnst claim of said Barker, dne by note.

Opinion:
Upon the first reason, which was admitted to he true, the commission and all proceedings in the Court of Probate upon it, were set aside. It is of importance to creditors, that judicious and disinterested men be appointed commissioners; as their doings are final and conclusive, as to the creditors, where their claims are disallowed by them.