Selectmen of Boston v. Boylston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
After the former decision in this cause, (1) that the respondent was not held to account here for the effects received bj [ * 319 ] him, as administrator of Thomas Boylston, in * England, the proceedings were continued at the motion of the appellants, upon a suggestion that pertain documents were necessary to be obtained from England, in order to show that the respondent was accountable, in his said capacity of administrator, for a large sum of money he had recovered, by a…
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After the former decision in this cause, (1) that the respondent was not held to account here for the effects received bj [ * 319 ] him, as administrator of Thomas Boylston, in * England, the proceedings were continued at the motion of the appellants, upon a suggestion that pertain documents were necessary to be obtained from England, in order to show that the respondent was accountable, in his said capacity of administrator, for a large sum of money he had recovered, by a judgment of this Court, of the estate of the late Moses Gill, Esq. And, at this term, the expected documents having been…
1Opinion of the Court
The Court took time for consideration, and their opinion (excepting that of the Chief Justice) was afterwards delivered by
Sewall, J.
Ward Nicholas Boylston, administrator de bonis non with the will annexed, of Thomas Boylston, late of London, deceased, appointed by letters granted in the county of Suffolk, having been cited into the Probate Court for that county, has been, in that court, and also in this Court, upon the appeal, examined by certain interrogatories; to which he has answered, that no effects or credits of the testator have come to his hands, since letters of administration were…
2Cited by23 opinions
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- Dawes v. BoylstonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1812
- Estate of Huffman v. HuffmanMissouri Court of Appeals · 1908
- Selectmen of Boston v. BoylstonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1807
- Mesmer v. JenkinsCalifornia Supreme Court · 1882
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