McCarthy v. Tierney

The substance of the allegations of the complaint is that the plaintiff, at the request of the defendant, advanced to him $60,000, which the defendant represented was necessary to retain attorneys to represent the proponents of the will of the plaintiff's wife (in which the plaintiff, the defendant and another were named as executors) in-a contest .over the admission of the will to probate, but that all counsel representing the executors and guardians ad litem were paid in full from the estate, and the defendant refuses to return or account for the money so advanced by the plaintiff. Aside…