Ames v. Downing

The Subbogate.

This case, though long pending in this Court, presents no complicated questions of fact. Die immense amount of testimony taken, and the protracted proceedings before the auditors, were in the main unnecessary ; and indeed it is difficult to imagine any reason why an accounting which might have been argued before the Surrogate, at the farthest, in the course of a few weeks, should thus have dragged its slow length along for four years before being brought to argument.

The points of controversy between the parties, are three in number.

1st. Mr. Ames, husband of one of the daughters…