Carroll v. Bowling

The question presented on this appeal is whether executors, who>, in distributing an estate, wrongly turned a fund over to a life tenant without investing it so- as. to protect the remaindermen, and who, consequently, are required to make good to the remaindermen a loss sustained during the life tenancy, may now, after the death of the life tenant, demand reimbursement from other property owned by her absolutely, and about to be distributed, to, or to vest in, her legatees and devisees, including the remaindermen of the first fund. The question comes up on pleadings only, being raised by…