Case Name: Peleg C. Barlow v. Jonathan C. Thrall, Adm'r of Nathan Pratt
Court: Vermont Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Vermont
Decision Date: 1839-01
Citations: 11 Vt. 247
Docket Number: 
Parties: Peleg C. Barlow v. Jonathan C. Thrall, Adm’r of Nathan Pratt.
Judges: 
Reporter: Vermont Reports
Volume: 11
Pages: 247–247

Head Matter:
Peleg C. Barlow v. Jonathan C. Thrall, Adm’r of Nathan Pratt.
W hen a person is the owner of two demands, one in favor of himself and another, and one in favor of himself and a third person, and presents the same to commissioners on an insolvent estate, he is not entitled to an appeal, if the commissioners do not disallow 20 dollars, on one of the demands, and the sums disallowed on both cannot be added together to make that amount.
This was a petition for leave to enter an appeal from the judgment of the commissioners, on the estate of Nathan Pratt, deceased, disallowing two claims presented by the petitioner against said estate. One of said claims was in the name of Barlow & Ewing, for $21,58, of which $10,17 was disallowed. The other was in the name of Barlow & Osgood, for $19,68, the whole of which was disallowed. The petition stated that, in consequence of the return of the commissioners not having been made till long after the time, in their commission limited for that purpose, had expired, and the absence of his counsel at the time such return was, in fact, made, the" petitioner had neglected to enter his appeal from the said judgment of the commissioners within the twenty days given by the statute for taking such appeal. The petitioner made affidavit that he was the owner of said claims.
S. Foot, for petitioner.
R. R. Thrall, for petitionee.

Opinion:
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Williams, Ch. J.
The prayer of the petitioner would be granted if the case were appealable. It appears, however^ that there has not been to the amount of twenty dollars disallowed on any one claim of the petitioner. He has two distinct and several claims, one in the name of Barlow & Osgood, on which the sum of nineteen dollars and sixty eight cents was disallowed, and one in favor of Barlow & Ewing, on which ten dollars and seventeen cents was disallowed ; and although he was the owner of both claims, yet they were several and distinct, and could only have been presented in the name of the several parties. The petition must, therefore, be dismissed.