Alsop v. Swathel
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action on a bond, given to the plaintiff, as judge of probate, by the defendants, as administrators of the estate of William R. Swathel deceased, to secure a faithful performance of their trust.
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This was an action on a bond, given to the plaintiff, as judge of probate, by the defendants, as administrators of the estate of William R. Swathel deceased, to secure a faithful performance of their trust. The'cause was tried, on affraverse, by the defendants, of the plaintiff’s replication, at Haddam, August term, 1828, before Lanman, J. The plaintiff claimed, that William R. Swathel, at the time of his death, was the owner of three shares of stock in the Hartford Stage Company, of the amount and value of 1,000 dollars each ; which the defendants had refused to inventory. The defendants…
1Opinion of the Court
Hosmer, Ch. J.
1. It was first insisted, by the plaintiff, that the shares were bought by John Swathel, for his brother William, and paid for, by the income arising upon them. On the other hand, the defendants claimed, that they were not purchased for William, but with the intent of permitting him to receive the dividends for the sustenance of his family, during his life, and after this, of conveying them to the same family, for their support. The court charged the jury, that if they should find, that the shares were purchased for William, with *503the view of their being his property, their…
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