Parsons v. Lyman
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut
This was a bill in equity, brought by cestui que trusts against testamentary trustees, to compel an account in the United States circuit court.
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This was a bill in equity, brought by cestui que trusts against testamentary trustees, to compel an account in the United States circuit court. By a statute of the state trustees of the character named are required to render their accounts annually to the courts of probate within their respective districts; and it appears to be customary for the probate judges to examine the accounts, and indorse them “ examined, approved and ordered on file,” and then place them on the files of the court. No notice is required by the statute of the time of settlement of the accounts, and none is in fact…
1Opinion of the CourtShipman, J.
On the 24th of October, 1848, Samuel Parsons, of Durham, in the state of Connecticut, died; leaving a large estate, and a last will and testament. By this will the respondents in this bill were appointed executors. They qualified and proceeded to settle the estate in the court of probate for the district of Middletown, that tribunal under the law of Connecticut having exclusive original jurisdiction thereof. The settlement of the estate, so far as that eourt had exclusive jurisdiction, was substantially completed on the 20th of November, 1849, by the adjustment of the executors’ accounts,…
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