Bogue v. Watrous
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover money of the defendant as executrix in her own wrong; brought to the City Court of the city of New London and thence, by appeal of the plaintiff, to the Court of Common Pleas of New London County, and heard in that court before Crump, J. Facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant and appeal by the plaintiff. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtSeymour, J.
Leander Watrous died owing the plaintiff one hundred and twenty dollars for meat, and owning personal property worth “ about one hundred dollars.” There were also claims due him amounting to sixteen dollars and twenty-five cents, which the defendant, his widow, collected, and which, together with the proceeds of the personal property, all of which she sold, she used in paying the preferred claims against her husband’s estate, which amounted to ninety-six dollars and eighty cents, about as much, says the finding, as she realized from the estate. She did not take out administration and no…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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