Case Name: Phelps v. Edwards, Administrator on the Confiscated Estate of B. Arnold
Court: Connecticut Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1785-02
Citations: 1 Root 96
Docket Number: 
Parties: Phelps v. Edwards, Administrator on the Confiscated Estate of B. Arnold.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 96–96

Head Matter:
NEW HAVEN COUNTY,
FEBRUARY TERM, A. D. 1785.
Phelps v. Edwards, Administrator on the Confiscated Estate of B. Arnold.
No appeal lies for a creditor whose claim is disallowed by commissioners on an insolvent estate.
Appeal from probate. Tlie case was — Said estate was represented insolvent, and commissioners appointed to receive and examine tbe claims of tbe creditors; Pbelps bad a claim against said Arnold’s estate, and exhibited it to tbe commissioners; tbe commissioners disallowed tbe claim, and made return to tbe Court of Probate; wbicb return of said commissioners was accepted by tbe court. Pbelps tabes an appeal from tbe determination of tbe Court of Probate in accepting said return; and assigns for reasons, that be bad a just claim against said estate, wbicb be exhibited to said commissioners, and that they disallowed it, whereas it ought to have been allowed.
Tbe appellee plead in abatement — That by tbe statute in such case provided, tbe doings of commissioners and their dis-allowance of a claim, is final and conclusive against creditors, and that neither the Court of Probate, nor this court, bath right or power to examine after them, nof to set aside their doings merely because tbe commissioners have disallowed tbe claim. To wbicb tbe appellant demurred.

Opinion:
And judgment —• That tbe plea was sufficient.