Potter's Appeal from Probate
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from a probate decree settling the account of the appellant'as executor of Ezra Curtis; taken to the Superior Court in Fairfield County, and heard before Sanford, J. The following facts were found by the court:— Ezra Curtis died testate, October 17th, 1879, leaving surviving him Mary E. Curtis, his wife, and George E. Curtis, his minor son, nine years of age, both of whom are legatees under his will.
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Appeal from a probate decree settling the account of the appellant'as executor of Ezra Curtis; taken to the Superior Court in Fairfield County, and heard before Sanford, J. The following facts were found by the court:— Ezra Curtis died testate, October 17th, 1879, leaving surviving him Mary E. Curtis, his wife, and George E. Curtis, his minor son, nine years of age, both of whom are legatees under his will. By his will he appointed James Potter, the appellant, to be his executor. Potter duly qualified as executor and acted as such prior to and during the years •1882 and 1888, and up to the…
1Opinion of the CourtPark, C. J.
Mr. Potter, the original appellant, was executor of the will of Ezra Curtis, and in that capacity had in April and July, 1882, a large sum of money in his hands for payment to the legatees under the will. The legatees were Mary E. Curtis, the widow, and George E. Curtis, his son and only child, then twelve years old, of whom the widow was the legally appointed guardian. In paying over *13portions of their shares to the widow on her own account and as guardian of her son, he advised her to take, and she, relying upon his advice and recommendation, took for herself one hundred shares of the…
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