Atwood v. Lockwood
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover the penalties provided by General Statutes, § 824, for the neglect of an administrator to make and return an inventory of his intestate’s estate, brought to and reserved by the Court of Common Pleas in Fairfield County, Curtis, J.., upon an agreed statement of facts, for the advice of this court.
1Opinion of the CourtTorrance, C. J.
The material facts in this case are in substance these: In April, 1893, Ann Amelia Smith, a resident of Norwalk in this State, died in that town leaving an estate there. In May, 1893, the defendant, Lockwood, became the duly-qualified administrator of the estate of said deceased, and continued as such up to the date of the institution of this suit in August, 1899. Said administrator never filed any inventory whatever of said estate as required by law. “ There is no record of any excuse being accepted ” by the Court of Probate for such failure to file such inventory. “ The defendant was…
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