Codwise v. Livermore
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Appeal from a decree' of the Probate Court for the county of Norfolk allowing the accounts of George A. P. Codwise as executor of the will of John W. Shaw, late of Wellesley, namely, the eleventh and eleven previous accounts, including the trustee’s account, so called, except that the executor’s charges for services in all of the accounts were reduced from $7,563.61 to $5,000, and it was ordered that the executor should stand charged with the sum of $2,563.61, the amount…
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Appeal from a decree' of the Probate Court for the county of Norfolk allowing the accounts of George A. P. Codwise as executor of the will of John W. Shaw, late of Wellesley, namely, the eleventh and eleven previous accounts, including the trustee’s account, so called, except that the executor’s charges for services in all of the accounts were reduced from $7,563.61 to $5,000, and it was ordered that the executor should stand charged with the sum of $2,563.61, the amount claimed by him in all the accounts for services in excess of the amount allowed him in the decree, and that this sum should…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
As the exceptions filed in these cases have been waived, nothing is before us but the appeal from the decree made by a single justice of this court. It appears that this decree was made upon evidence heard by him, which included the report of an auditor appointed by the Probate Court. No findings of fact have been filed, and no part of the evidence is before us, except the report of the auditor. Unless therefore it appears that the single justice bad no jurisdiction to enter the decree appealed from, we must affirm his decree. Hodgdon v. Fuller, 193 Mass. 331. Slack v. Slack, 123 Mass. 443.
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2Cases cited6 opinions
- Slack v. SlackMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1877
- Bartlett v. SlaterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1903
- Harris v. HarrisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1891
- Cowden v. JacobsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1896
- Murphy v. WalkerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1881
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- Phillips v. ChaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
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- Shattuck v. StickneyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1912
- Dallinger v. MorseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
- Hall v. BoyntonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
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