Howard v. Hunt

These are appeals by the executors of the will of William A. Gaston and by Frederic E. Snow from decrees of the Probate Court disallowing certain items of the accounts filed by Gaston and Snow, trustees under the will of Frank E. Simpson, and ordering that the sums designated be paid from the estate of Gaston to Snow and to Edgar N. Hunt.

Frank E. Simpson by his will named Gaston, Hunt," and one other person, for whom Snow was substituted, as trustees of the trusts described. Hunt for several years had been the confidential secretary of Simpson and was familiar with his investments. In 1918,…