Mathews v. Sheehan
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from an order and decree of the Court of Probate for the district of Stafford relating to certain administration accounts, taken to the Superior Court in Tolland County and referred to a committee by whom the facts were found and reported; the court, Shumway, J., accepted the committee’s report; overruling a remonstrance thereto, and judgment was afterwards rendered (Robinson, JJ) in favor of the defendants, from which the plaintiff appealed.
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Appeal from an order and decree of the Court of Probate for the district of Stafford relating to certain administration accounts, taken to the Superior Court in Tolland County and referred to a committee by whom the facts were found and reported; the court, Shumway, J., accepted the committee’s report; overruling a remonstrance thereto, and judgment was afterwards rendered (Robinson, JJ) in favor of the defendants, from which the plaintiff appealed. Julius Converse died intestate June 7th, 1892, leaving a widow, Mira L. Converse, and four children, namely, Eugenia C. Mathews, Lillia A. Lee,…
1Opinion of the CourtTorrance, C. J.
When Mr. Converse died he was indebted to certain stock-brokers in the sum of a little over $286,000, “ on margin account,” secured by stocks and bonds purchased for- him by such brokers and carried by them for him “ upon the usual terms on which speculative accounts are carried ” by brokers.
The appellant claims that the administrators, instead of settling these speculative accounts within a reasonable time, carried some of them along for an unreasonable time and for the purpose of speculative gains, and thereby caused loss to her as one of the heirs of the intestate, and that they are…
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