Jones v. Butler

This action is brought against a trustee, to obtain an account, and to have the trustee changed, on the ground of a misappropriation of the trust property. The trust arose under a marriage settlement made in 1813. At the time of its execution both of the parties to it were under age. The defendant Butler was appointed trustee, in the place of the original trustee, within one or two years thereafter. In 1816 a conveyance was made to the trustee, of lots in Broome street, which recited that the trustee had determined to invest $5000 of the trust property in these lots, and which conveyed the…