Murray v. Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance

This is an appeal by the surety upon the bond of a removed executor from a decree allowing the third account revising the first and second accounts of the executor.

The contention is made that the surety upon the bond of the executor was not entitled to appeal from the decree allowing the account. It is provided by G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 215, § 9, that a “person aggrieved by . . . decree . . . of a probate court . . . may . . . appeal from the same. . . .” It has been held that a person is “aggrieved” within the meaning of that word in this section provided it appears that “he has some pecuniary…