Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-14
THE NEY MONEY.
Search for it in Court To. Day..FOrm.
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 After being ten years in the district court, light IS beginning to shed itself on the whereabouts Of $400 due Mrs Catherine Ney as administratrix on the estate of the late keron Ney. The matter came up at short calendar this morning i'll hearing on defendants motion for payment of funds ill the ! affair of the city against the estate of heron Ney. The foundation of the con- tention is this: Some ten or twelve years ago certain property belonging to the estate of Keron Ney on Baldwin street was foreclosed and sold for as- sessmentS, taxes and liens due the city. The sum of $2,0UU was realized from the sale and about 1,4O0 Of this went TOT expenses Of the sale and for what was due to the city. The remaining $oOO seemed to have disappeared until l after repeated motions for production ,, ln court $2OO was paid. Now the ques- tlon IS what has become ot the other S4OO! The auctioneer of the occasion was a city official whose identity seems to have been lost in the lapse of time. This morning Attorney O'NeiIl. as 1 counsel for Mrs Ney, demanded that the $60O be paid over to her as admin 1strator because she was entitled to it.
 Judge CoWell replied that he did not Know she had any right to it, that the matter was in court some ten years l ana something should be done about it,
 MT O'Neiu said that the money be- longs to the estate of Mr Ney and therefore to his widow as administra- tr1x, not to the officers of the district court, who, ill Mr O'Neills opinion are keping the money.
 Clerk Root could not stand sucn an tnsfnuation as this and he answered that about ten years ago an order was issued by the court and that only $20O was paid. He had no right to accept such money in that way, but he did it l to Oblige.
 MT o'Neill replied that Mrs Ney had life interest ill the estate and there fore is entitled to this S6OO. ana the reason 1t has not been paid to her was because of the non-workings of the court. It was about high time. he said, that Mrs Ney should be paid the money. It is all she has to live upon. She is entitled to it and that was all there could be said about it. Clerk Root: For ten years you nave been trying to find out who uas this money"
 MT O'Nein: "And for ten years we have been unable to find out who has 9OI Ab1 DVS0ASO tue O1uCGfS or In1S court lied like the de-the very dick ens." There was a great burst of laughter at the slip MT O'NeiIl came near making. Resuming, he said;
 Now the officers Of this court said Dan Webster had it, but Dan is not here. He is dead, and we can't find out whether or not he ever had it. Now We want this money. We will get it, too, for an officer of this court has got 1t; ne put it in his pocket and kept it. l City Attorney Kellogg: T, for one, want to see this money paid over to the proper party.''
 Judge Cowell: ''The money is large | ly in the hands of a former officer of this court, therefore the court is not responsible. If Mrs Ney is the. proper person to be paid this money the court will issue an order that it shall be paid her and she must give her receipt to the clerk and her bondsman shall also give receipt when she is paid it.' Clerk Root: "That makes me respon- sible for money have not received.''
 MT O'Neill: No, 1t doesn't"
 Judge Cowell Pay over what you have got, get Mrs Ney's receipt as ad- ministrator and also of her bondsman
 and that will make them responsible" !" Clerk Root "Then don't see where get off"
 That closed the discussion in court for the present. A few moments later
 Attorney Kennedy, counsel for the heirs, informed MT Root that he would hold him responsible for any money paid to Mrs Ney that belonged to the estate,