Karel v. Pereles
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: LaweeNce W. Halsey, Circuit Judge. .A proceeding was brought in tbe county court of Milwaukee county to require an accounting under tbe will of Robert Davies and a finding was made requiring tbe executors to account. From tbis finding an appeal was taken to tbe circuit court.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: LaweeNce W. Halsey, Circuit Judge. .A proceeding was brought in tbe county court of Milwaukee county to require an accounting under tbe will of Robert Davies and a finding was made requiring tbe executors to account. From tbis finding an appeal was taken to tbe circuit court. An action was also brought in tbe circuit court upon tbe executors’ bond of James M. Pereles and Thomas- J. Pereles against tbe executors of tbe estate of James M. and Thomas J. Pereles, deceased, and Ernest (?.- Miller and Fred A. Miller as sureties upon…
1Opinion of the CourtSiebecker, J.
The trial court held that the failure of James M. Pereles and Thomas J. Pereles to account for the moneys which they had received into their hands from the Robert Davies estate constituted, under the facts and circumstances shown, a violation of their duties as executors and a breach of their executors’ bond. This conclusion is based on the facts as found by the court that it was the purpose, intent, and understanding of the county court, as expressed in its judgment of February 28, 1901, and of the executors and their sureties on the bond, that James M. and Thomas J. Pereles should hold the…
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