Young v. People

One John Murphy was administrator of the estate of Hannah Goodman, and the appellants were sureties on his bond, in the Probate Court. Murphy obtained, in the Probate Court, an order giving him leave to sell the personal estate of the deceased. Under that order he sold to Bridget Mitchell the interest of the deceased in a frame building, for §275, and received the money. That sale the court first approved, but afterward held that the interest of the deceased in the building was not personal property, and ordered Murphy to refund the money to Bridget Mitchell. He did not refund, though she…