Kaufman v. Kaufman's Adm'r

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

—Affirming on direct and reversing on cross-appeal.

The principal question is the liability of an administrator and the sureties on his bond for the embezzlement of funds of the estate by an attorney to whom they were entrusted. A cross-appeal questions the time from which interest allowed in the judgment began and the power of the court to decree that it should bear 3% interest instead of the legal rate of 6%.

Upon the insistence of his brothers and sisters Henry Kaufman qualified as administrator of the estate of his recently deceased father, Peter…