The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-04
IN AND ABOUT THE COURTS
EI-JUDGE BRONSON FILES AN-
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 Ex-Judge Samuel L. Bronson of tI.is city, who has been sued by Miss Susan Bronson, his aunt, of Waterbury, for N,2OO,o0O, she alleging wrongful man. agement of her estate and the retention of securities, stocks, etc, yesterday hled his answer in the superior court. He claims that his aunt was not the real plaintiff in the case. but J. Hobart Bronson, whom she made her attorney in Waterbury, September 10, 1904, is. Miss Bronson lives in. Waterbury and was sister Of the late pr. Henry Bronson of this city, who died in 1889. J. Hobart Bronson, it is set out, is nephew of Miss Bronson, aged eighty one years, by a half sister. The de- fendant claims that this nephew is making an attempt to secure posses sion of the property.
 Ex-Judge Bronson says he has con- ferred with all the heifs of Miss Bron- son other than J. Hobart Bronson and his wife and family, and that they de- sire that he still continue to execute the trust reposed in him by his father and ratified by Miss Bronston, which was to manage her estate and stock in cer- tain corporations at Waterbury.
 The late Dr. Bronson, it is stated, in 1851, was made the manager of the es- Of Mice I1xra When Dr. Bronson died ex-Judge Bron- son, his son, was made his executor, this carrying the management of his sisters estate with it. The manage ment, it is set out, has continued to be satisfactory to Miss Bronson.
 In 1889 the agreement was modified so as to exclude certain Waterbury real estate and stocks in corporations. By paying the increases in the stocks of the estate and also paying $2O,0O0 for homestead for his aunt the defendant says the estate was increased from $S5o,OoO to $5S0,OO0. .
 The defendant says that when J, Hobart Bronson was made attorney of his aunt who had been opposed to his participating in the management of the < GSldlC, IL WdS pCGctuSc OI IiGE lilSlllttl llt- capacity, and that he induced her to transfer to him certain stocks that he might become a director in the concerns that they represented and thereby magnify his local importance" His latest proceeding is characterized as only one of a series of acts of his to secure possession of the estate. As at torney J. Hobart Bronson now holds authority to pledge Miss Bronson's un- limited personal credit.
 SECOND COUNT IN $500, 900 CASE.
 A second count in the $600,000 damage suit" brought by Franklin Farrel, the Ansonia millionaire, with members of his family and Rutherford Trowbridge and May Wells Trowbridge of this city, against Thomas Wallace, jr., of 99S Prospect street, and Robert D. Grant of Salt Lake City was filed in the superior court yesterday. This suit relates to the sale of stock in the Montana Par rott silver and copper mine.
 The defendants. it IS alleged in the original complaint, acted as agents for the plaintiffs and sold stock in this mine to the value of s6O0,0OO, for which they have never made any return.
 The second count filed yesterday sets out that in 1899 the Parrott Silver and Copper company was operating near Butte Mont. The authorized capital stock of the company was 290000 shares of the par value of $1O each, of which there were issues 229,S5O shares. In the early part of February, 1899, Franklin Farrel owned 60694 shares of this stock, E U. rr7 ,t,I hnld i QEe shares as guardian for Franklin Farrel jr., Elsie and Lillian Farrel and Ruth- erford TroWbridge is related by mar riage to the Farrel family.
 The total holdings of Franklin Farrel and his family being 102,459 shares.
 On May 1, 1899, the defendants sold 115,719 shares, representing the Farrel holdings and also the shares controlled by the defendants, to William Rocke- feller, or Henry H. Rogers, or the Amalgamated Copper company. The de- fendants received about $5, 900 on the sale, The defendants, 1t is alleged, re- ported they had received but S4,62S, ,760 on the stock and it was not until re- gently that the plaintiffs heard that about $600,000 more was due them.
 iIne QldlDtllLS dSk tue COulI TUT iS- covery from the defendants of the pre- else amount received by them in con- nection with the sale of the stock.
 In making the sales it is asserted in the papers, the defendants also obtain ed P 1-2 per cent. commission upon the total amount sold at the returned price of $40 a share.
 SUES FOR FATHERS DEATH.
 Assistant Corporation Counsel James Kingsley Blake appeared in his new po- sition before Judge Joel H. Reed in the special superior court in the case of Edward J. Carey, the son of the late Edward Carey, who is suing the city for $5,000 The father of the plaintiff died in March of 1904 as the result of a fall upon an icy sidewalk on the east side of Liberty street, between Columbus ave- nue and Portsea street three months previously. Corporation Counsel Dag getts and MT. Blake contend that the amount asked is excessive and that the deceased did not come to his death through the injuries incurred, but through pneumonia. Fitzgerald & Walsh, who represent the plaintiff, con- tend that death was due to the effects from fractured hip and arm and the general shock occasioned to the de-