Second Bank-State Street Trust Co. v. Linsley

This proceeding involves the duties of the respondent as guardian ad litem in relation to the allowance of four accounts of a trustee and a successor trustee under the will of Katharine W. Atkins. The underlying question is whether he is obliged or privileged to scrutinize vouchers which support the accounts of the executors under the same will, there being no identity between the executors and the trustees. His report states that he has “no reason to believe that the accounts now presented for allowance are in anything but good order.”

Following the decision in Claflin, petitioner, 336 Mass.…