Allen v. Puritan Trust Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on August 27,1908, by the administrator de bonis non of the estate of Albert H. Bird, late of Brookline, to recover the amount of certain checks drawn on the defendant and on the First National Bank of Boston by one William L. Baker, as administrator of the estate of the plaintiff’s intestate, to the personal order of Baker and indorsed by him and deposited in his personal account with the defendant.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on August 27,1908, by the administrator de bonis non of the estate of Albert H. Bird, late of Brookline, to recover the amount of certain checks drawn on the defendant and on the First National Bank of Boston by one William L. Baker, as administrator of the estate of the plaintiff’s intestate, to the personal order of Baker and indorsed by him and deposited in his personal account with the defendant. The bill prayed that the defendant might be adjudged to be a trustee of the proceeds of these checks and for an accounting and for further…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The master to whom the case was referred reports, that William L. Baker, the first administrator of the estate of Albert H. Bird, opened two accounts with the defendant. By the terms of deposit as entered on its books, the first stood in his name individually, while the second, consisting wholly of moneys belonging to the estate, appeared in the name of the estate followed by his own name as administrator. But while the money deposited could be disposed of by the defendant subject only to the obligation to pay an equivalent sum on demand, or to his order, the checks of the depositor would not…
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