People ex rel. Stough v. Harry C. Danforth & Standard Accident Insurance

Plaintiff Jay Stough, an attorney, appeals from an adverse judgment in a suit upon an administrator’s bond. The liability on the bond depends upon the effect to be given to an order entered February 8, 1935, in a proceeding in the circuit court, on appeal from the probate court, which ordered the administrator to pay plaintiff $300 for services as attorney. This suit on the bond, commenced October 30, 1935, followed the failure or refusal of the administrator to obey that order.

The complaint set up the appointment in September, 1926, of Harry C. Danforth as administrator of the estate of…