Babcock v. Hubbard
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for an account of the proceeds of trust property-sold by the defendant as executor, and for damages for the negligent administration of a trust by the testator; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County, and heard before JPhelps, J. Facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiffs. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
In February, 1872, Charles E. Babcock and his wife Lydia, plaintiffs, and Eben T. Starr and his wife Almira, whose interest is now in Ewen McIntyre, plaintiff, claiming that one George H. Penfield had procured from them by fraudulent representations a conveyance of their interest in certain valuable real estate in Hartford, which upon the finding constituted their entire property, employed Richard D. Hubbard, of the firm of Waldo, Hubbard & Hyde, as an attorney-at-law to institute and conduct such legal proceedings as should be necessary for the recovery of their estate. In that month he in…
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