Wood v. Farwell

This is an appeal from a decree of a single justice, allowing in part an account of the appellant as administrator, and disallowing it in part. The only questions before us are whether the court had jurisdiction, and whether the burden of proof was on the accountant to establish the truth of his account.

At different times, in the Probate Court, the appellant filed amendments to his account, and in regard to a part of it he was the claimant of a debt alleged to be due him from the estate. The parties failed to agree upon an arbitration under the provisions of the B. L. c. 141, §§ 6, 7, and it…