Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1861

Livermore v. Bemis

Livermore v. Bemis
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided October 15, 1861
84 Mass. 394

Counsel

D. Foster, for the respondents, submitted the case without argument., G. F. Hoar, for the petitioner.

Livermore v. Bemis

Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

The money with which the administratrix of the guardian has charged him in the guardianship account was never received by him as guardian, and could not have been transferred from his account as executor to his account as guardian without a violation of his duty as executor, because the legacy did not become payable before the death of the guardian.

His administratrix, after his death, could not rightfully exonerate his sureties as executor, and make his sureties as guardian responsible, by settling a guardianship account and charging him in it with the receipt of that money as guardian.

Petition granted.

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