Stinson v. Porter

The plaintiff brought this action to recover of the defendant, as executor, a certain sum of money, alleged to be the consideration of a certain deed executed by the plaintiff and her husband to certain parties, which said consideration came into the hands of the defendant’s testator and was received by him for the use of the plaintiff.

The defendant, among other things, by way of explanation or inducement, set up in his answer certain proceedings which were hadiTn the Probate Court some years prior, by which it appeared that the guardian of the plaintiff had attempted to convey the identical…