In re the Conservatorship of Hall

The present controversy relates to the accounts of A. L. Barnett as conservator of Henry P. Hall, an insane person.

The conservator was appointed in 1863, and made his first report in L876. In that report it appeared that the affairs of the ward had been managed in a very loose and careless way, the brothers of the insane person having divided the trouble with the conservator. Ho accounts of receipts and disbursements were kept, and the report conceded that it was impossible to make anything like an accurate statement of the transactions embraced in that period of thirteen years.

That report,…