Connecticut Bank & Trust Co. v. Rivkin

The defendant herein, Joseph D. Riv-kin, although not himself a lawyer, occupied space in the law offices of the plaintiffs’ testator, Naaman Cohen. Under an arrangement which had existed for over ten years, the decedent had loaned money to Rivkin, Rivkin had rendered services to the decedent, and a running account of the transactions had been kept by the decedent. Commissioners were appointed on the estate of the decedent, which was fully solvent, under § 45-211 of the General Statutes, to act on a claim for $31,200 which Rivkin had presented against the estate and which the executors had…