Blakemore v. Jones

Janet H. Jones was one of two trustees under the residuary clause of the will of Everett Jones late of Brookline, who died April 25, 1919, and whose second wife she was. Through want of good judgment on the part of her co-trustee, now deceased, and without any moral fault on her part, she was charged with liability to the principal of the trust in the sum of $32,041.27 and to the income account in the sum of $26,474.27. She was and is financially irresponsible. The surety on her bond paid to the petitioner, the succeeding trustee, $32,000, and received a release from him and an assignment of…