Mix's Appeal from Probate
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from a decree of a probate court, settling the account of the appellant as administrator on the estate of Joseph E. Webster ; taken to the Superior Court in Hartford County. The Superior Court (Loomis, J.,) reversed the decree appealed from, and the appellees brought the record, which contained a finding of the facts, before this court by a motion in error. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
On the 28th day of June, 1864, the appellant, as administrator on the estate of Joseph E. Webster, deceased, presented to the court of probate an administration account, which was intended as a preliminary, and not as the final account, in which he erroneously, and through mistake and inadvertance, charged himself with the whole of the personal property embraced in the inventory, only twenty-six eightieths of which belonged to the estate. In his final account he attempted to correct the mistake, by charging to the estate the sum of $419.85, that being the amount erroneously charged to himself…
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