Dorn v. Scheuer

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Proctor, J.

This is an appeal by Catherine Dorn, substituted administratrix of the estate of John Mild, and the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, her surety, from a judgment of the Bergen County Court sustaining objections to her final accounting and surcharging her for the sum of $32,164.70, which was embezzled from the estate by her attorney, Charles Halstead. The case was certified by this court on its own motion before consideration by the Appellate Division.

John Mild died intestate in Bergen County on August 11, 1950, leaving an estate of…