Dorris v. Miller
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Black Hawk District Court. — Hon. J. J. Tolerton, Judge. Suit in equity for an accounting between plaintiff, who is executor of the will of John F. Miller, deceased, and defendant, who at one time acted as administrator .of the estate of mid John F. Miller, under appointment from the district court of Black Hawk county. The trial court gave plaintiff judgment for two thousand, fifty-six dollars and sixty cents, and both parties, appeal.
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Appeal from Black Hawk District Court. — Hon. J. J. Tolerton, Judge. Suit in equity for an accounting between plaintiff, who is executor of the will of John F. Miller, deceased, and defendant, who at one time acted as administrator .of the estate of mid John F. Miller, under appointment from the district court of Black Hawk county. The trial court gave plaintiff judgment for two thousand, fifty-six dollars and sixty cents, and both parties, appeal. As plaintiff first perfected Ms appeal, he will be called the “appellant.’-’ —
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, C. J.
*5661 *565— John F. Miller died, testate, in the state of Pennsylvania, August 24, 1893. Defendant, W. M. Miller, is his nephew. About the year 1874, John F. Miller placed nineteen thousand dollars in money in the hands of his nephew, to be loaned in the states of Iowa and Kansas. At the time of his death, this fund amounted to about thirty-six thousand dollars. The uncle also held a note of about five thousand dollars against his nephew. The John F. Miller estate was .appraised at seventy thousand dollars, and the will devised the same to the nephews and nieces, and sisters and stepsisters of the…
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