Bennett v. Bennett

The plaintiff and the defendant’s intestate were business partners. The defendant was appointed administrator of his intestate’s estate in February, 1889, and he gave the usual notice of his appointment. In the next month, March, 1889, the plaintiff was qualified and authorized as surviving partner to administer the partnership estate and affairs. He did not close that administration and present his final account for allowance until March, 1896. This account, as finally allowed in November, 1896, showed the partnership to be indebted to him in the sum of $1015.81. He brought an action at law…