Stevens v. Meserve
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Prorate Appeal, from a decree allowing tbe defendant’s account as guardian of tbe plaintiff. Trial by the court. Transferred from tbe February term, 1904, of tbe superior court by Chamberlin, J. Nathaniel Stevens died in 1887, and was survived by a widow and tbe plaintiff, bis only child and heir, then a minor.
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Prorate Appeal, from a decree allowing tbe defendant’s account as guardian of tbe plaintiff. Trial by the court. Transferred from tbe February term, 1904, of tbe superior court by Chamberlin, J. Nathaniel Stevens died in 1887, and was survived by a widow and tbe plaintiff, bis only child and heir, then a minor. The defendant was appointed guardian of tbe plaintiff, April 13, 1888. Tbe decedent left personal estate appraised at $109,456.54, of which $19,221.50 was in stocks of banks and other corporations, $4,224.18 in overdue notes of doubtful value secured by mortgages of real estate in…
1Opinion of the CourtChase, J.
From an early date there have been statutory pro-
visions in the province and state relating to the settlement and distribution of the estates of deceased persons. The earliest statutes followed in most respects the statute of 22 and 23 Car. II, enacted in 1670. See 1 N. H. PrOv. Laws (Batch, ed.), p. 566; Prov. Laws, ed. 1771, p. 104; Laws, ed. 1815, p. 207. They required the making of an inventory of the estate, the administration of it according to law, an accounting, and a distribution of the “ surplusage ” Or residue among the widow and heirs in certain proportions. The first provision…
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