Case Name: Bacon v. Fitch et al.
Court: Connecticut Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1790-03
Citations: 1 Root 181
Docket Number: 
Parties: Bacon v. Fitch et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 181–181

Head Matter:
Bacon v. Fitch et al.
An obligation. given to the heirs of a person living, by that description only, is good.
EeRor, complaining of a judgment of the County Court in an action brought by Eiteh et al. children and heirs of Mary Backus against said Bacon, on a note given by him to the heirs of Mary Backus, she theu being alive, for £20, payable the 16th of January, A. D. 1766.
A demurrer was given to the declaration.
The question was —■ Whether the heirs of a person living, is a sufficient description for them to take by.
Judgment' — -Declaration sufficient: And this judgment was affirmed.

Opinion:
By the Court.
All that is necessary, in an obligee or grantee, is that he hath a capacity to take, and is so described as to be certainly known to be the person meant and intended; and in this case there cannot arise a doubt as to who the promisees were.