Wehrhane v. Peyton

These cases are appeals taken by the executors under the will of William C. Peyton and by the same persons individually from the refusal of the Probate Court of the district of Greenwich to approve their final account as executors. By stipulation of the parties the only issue presented to the trial court was the correctness of a ruling of the Probate Court that certain dividends received by the executors upon stock forming a part of the estate were payable to the testator’s widow as life tenant and not to the executors as individuals > to whom in the latter capacity the property was given at…