Roberson v. Graham Corp.

FORD, District Judge.

Plaintiffs in this action seek to recover, among other items, for the breaking or destruction of certain antiques belonging to plaintiffs’ decedent Edith M. Tourtellot, these articles allegedly having been damaged when defendant’s truck crashed into the home of Mrs. Tourtellot on May 8, 1951. Mrs. Tourtellot died August 27, 1951 and the remaining undamaged pieces of her collection were appraised as of that date, in connection with the probate of her estate, by one Joseph Carbone, an appraiser appointed by the Middlesex Probate Court. In the course of a pre-trial…