Organized Charities Asso. v. Mansfield
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to enforce a claim for $10,000 against the estate of Mrs. Lucy H. Boardman, deceased, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, Reed, J. Judgment for defendants. The testatrix was a woman of large means. The defendant Fields was, up to her decease, and for fifteen years before had been, her confidential business adviser.
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Action to enforce a claim for $10,000 against the estate of Mrs. Lucy H. Boardman, deceased, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, Reed, J. Judgment for defendants. The testatrix was a woman of large means. The defendant Fields was, up to her decease, and for fifteen years before had been, her confidential business adviser. He made and changed her investments; drew on her bank account (as did she, also), which was kept at the National Tradesmens Bank in New Haven, of which he was the president; and kept her securities in its vaults, in her box, of which he…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, C. J.
It is apparent from the letter of March 22d that Mrs. Boardman delivered her note of that date to Mr. Fields with a view of making a gift, by way of endowment, of $10,000 for the use of the plaintiff. She made the note payable to his order, and provided for the investment of its “proceeds” by him for the plaintiff’s benefit. He drew up the two papers as her agent, and it is not found that he received them, after they were executed, in any other capacity.
The fact that he was a director of the plaintiff is, standing alone, not sufficient, as matter of law, to establish its representation in…
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