Tupper v. Hancock

The question here is whether the appellees Stanton and Mitchell are barred from participating in a distribution made in the estate of Francis C. Adams by • reason of releases given by them to the administrator of the estate. The judge of probate entered a decree that they were not barred, and the case comes here on the appeal of the executors of the late Thurber C. Adams, a creditor and one of the next of kin of Francis C. Adams. The judge made no finding of material facts, but there was a report *106of the evidence. See G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 215, § 12. The relevant facts disclosed by the evidence…