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2 R.I. 538

Harris v. Harris

Supreme Court of Rhode Island

Decided September 6, 1853

Supreme Court of Rhode Island · decided 1853-09-06

This was an appeal from a decree of the Municipal Court of Providence.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently December 1921

2 state decisions

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Decided 1853-09-06

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¶1 The Court were of the opinion that petitions by or on behalf of two or more, might be embraced in a single application to the Probate Court for the appointment of a guardian, and that the judgments of the Court upon these several petitions, and also upon a separate application made in connection with them for the appointment of the same guardian, like the two applications in the present case, might be embraced in a single decree, and that in appealing from such a decree the appellant might confine his appeal to so much of the decree as related to one or more of the petitioners without appealing from *540 jthe entire decree, but that, where the appeal was from the decision of the Court upon two distinct applications, a separate appeal must be taken and a separate appeal bond filed in reference to each. Whether in case .of an appeal from a decision in reference to two persons whose petitions were embraced in one application, a separate appeal and bond was required as to each person, the Court did not decide though they intimated that such was their opinion.

¶2 Appeal dismissed,

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