Samuels v. Brownlee

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Bermudez, C. J.

This is an action sounding in damages for upwards of $15,000.

It is brought by the legatees of the naked ownership of one-half of the estate of a testator, against the executors of the latter and the representatives of the usufructuaries of that and of the other half.

The complaint is, that the executors in violation of their trust and of the law, have voluntarily placed the usufructuaries in the undivided possession of all the effects of the succession; that they have permitted those usufructuaries to waste and squander the movables and…