Kent v. Hunt
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Probate Appeals. Facts found, and case transferred without ruling from the April term, 1906, of the superior court, by Chamberlin, J. May 6, 1906, the plaintiff, as executrix of her husband’s will, settled his accounts as guardian of two minors in the probate court. In that accounting she was charged in specie for three several notes of the Exeter Manufacturing Company, payable to her husband as guardian. From this decree no appeal was prosecuted.
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Probate Appeals. Facts found, and case transferred without ruling from the April term, 1906, of the superior court, by Chamberlin, J. May 6, 1906, the plaintiff, as executrix of her husband’s will, settled his accounts as guardian of two minors in the probate court. In that accounting she was charged in specie for three several notes of the Exeter Manufacturing Company, payable to her husband as guardian. From this decree no appeal was prosecuted. July 25,1905, upon her petition the court authorized her to transfer to the defendant as guardian, succeeding her husband in that capacity, certain…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
From the reported facts and the briefs of counsel it appears that the ground of the appeal is, tiiat there is error of law in the decree of the probate court denying the plaintiff’s petition, so far as it asks for authority to transfer to the defendant the notes of the Exeter Manufacturing Company. By the decree of May 6, it was determined that George E. Kent’s estate was-chargeable upon the settlement of his guardianship account with the notes in question in specie, and not for their value represented in money. Thereupon the plaintiff held the notes as specific property belonging to the…
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