McKim v. Glover
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The first case was an appeal by the administrator with the will annexed of the estate of Henry P. Nichols, surety upon the bond of Charles S. Nichols, trustee under "the will of Isaac B. Woodbury, from a decree of the Probate Court dismissing his petition to open the trustee’s final account for the correction of an alleged error therein.
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The first case was an appeal by the administrator with the will annexed of the estate of Henry P. Nichols, surety upon the bond of Charles S. Nichols, trustee under "the will of Isaac B. Woodbury, from a decree of the Probate Court dismissing his petition to open the trustee’s final account for the correction of an alleged error therein. Hearing before Morton, J., who found for the appellees, and at the request of the parties reserved the case for the determination of the full court. The facts appear in the opinion. The second case was an action on the probate bond founded on the failure of…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
As these two cases relate to the same controversy, and depend for the most part on the same facts, they were argued together, and they may both be considered in the same opinion. The first of them is a petition to open a trustee’s final account for the correction of an alleged error in it. The decisions of this court in Nichols, appellant, 157 Mass. 20, and in McKim v. Glover, 161 Mass. 418, which were made upon the facts now before us, go far towards settling the questions raised in this new phase of the controversy. In Nichols, appellant, it was held that the decree of the Probate Court…
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