Norwich bulletin., 1921-04-12

losit in the Savings Bank of New Lon don. and in the Mariners Savings Bank In the names of these appellants several y, and from said claimed assets Of ] said estate, he then deducted and pa:d | to himself the sum of four thousand | dollars (S4000) in payment of a claim | ed debt owed by said estate to him. al- though said estate was not then in debted to him Said Geary in making said payment to himself acted entirely without any authority from any court and said claimed indebtedness of said estate to him had not been found to be due to him and said payment was not approval by the probate court. Said payment is shown in said account on the credit side thereof as the item 1910 Lpaid to J. c. Geary bill ins full $4,- 600" and is an improper credit item and should be disaliowed.
 17-Said Geary in making this said payment to himself claimed that said | sum was balance due him for services alleged by him to have been loaned by him to said estate. Said account does not contain statement of the trans actions resulting in such balance. l 1S-Said sum of four thousand dol
 lars ($4o0o) was not then due from said
 estate to said Geary, whatever indebt- | edness ever existed from said estate to
 him, having been paid to him long prior
 to the death of said administrative.
 1s-Said sum of sixteen thousand five
 hundred seventy-eight dollars and twen- ty-three cents (S1e,57s.23) so withdrawn
 by said Geary from said banks as afore-
 said, was not the property of said es-
 tate, but was the property of the appel
 lants individually.
 20-Said account so filed by said John c. Geary, administrator, is so involved
 that 1t cannot be understood, or compre- hended, and Is unintelligible and is inn
 proper in form, and should therefore be disallowed
 |. 21-It appears therefrom that all of the items on the debit side of the ac- count, except the first item-"Book Ac } counts as shown by Ledger August 31st 7 1901" are receipts from property in. yentoried, without any effort being mad, 10 state gain or loss resulting from = such sales.
 22-Said account unfairly charges tnt l administratrix with the item 'ReceiveC l book accounts inventoried March 17th 7 1895" without .sta$ing how much of 5 said book accounts were collected by : said administratrix or by her said at t torney1 notwithstanding the fact that g large sums of money were SO collected. t 23-Said account unfairly charges tn e administratrix with the item Book Ac
 counts, August 31st, 1901-twenty thoue - and and three hundred ninety-four dol \ lars an sixty-six cents ($20,39466)" f without stating in said account whethe 0 said item embraces any part of bool . accounts inyentoried March 17th, 1S95 | and without stating how much thereo - was collected by said administratrix, O n her attorney, and said item is indefinite
 10 ftTrrA AH AhA 1A A. d drew ]. Bentley he was carrying on d general wholesale and retail bushes. - known as the Columbia Steam Saw Mill S Comnany, and from and after the an O pointment and qualification of said at V minstratrix, she, under the guidance an f direction of her attorney and agent, Joh l. C., Geary, carried on said business. An
 1t appears from said account that sai q business was so carried on, but said at L. count does not show the receipts and e, q penditures of said administratrix in cal .- rying on said business.
 IT 25-In carrying on said business, lars a purchases were made of merchandise an T. material. yet said account does not sho y the amount of said purchases. or u e- amount of sales therefrom.
 ' l2e-Said business was actually col y ducted by said administratrix as afor
 said from the time of the death of sai
 Andrew J. Bentley in 1895 to 1S0
 and during the time the annual sales =. merchandise made by said administra 70 Q trix in said business was approximate ~ one hundred seveuty-three thousand do
 lars (173,oo0) in each and every yea " during said period, yet said accoul -e credits the administratrix with only a, s proximately one-seventh of the amoui ie of sale actually made
 1 27-Said account should be rejectj a because 1t does not show the items ,e ie the transactions of said estate in ca ii rying on said business
 2S-Said account should be disaI1ow oA and rejected because it contains iter a of various sums in gross, without pro n- CT items of explanation, to wit: e. (a) Losse in business, shown
 by Schedule c .......... .s7s,5oS. = (b) Unpaid bills March 1T,
 1895, estimated .... 47,1ss.
 Co Paid John c. Geary-bill
 in full ............... 1000. ! (d) Shrinkage on inventory .. 3O,756. (e) Sundry accounts, as per books. as shown by Sched- n ule B, bills payable .... 6,11S. N l (O Farm expense ........ 9,101. (g) Farm account .......... 233. (h) House expense .......... 1880 N O Expense on real estate, per estate books .......... 1894 29-Said account is incorrect and \ should be disallowed in that the item
 shrinkage on inventory, amounting : thirty thousand seven hundred fifty dollars and seventy three cents (S3
 T5673) is not explained in any W:
 3o-Said account should be disallov
 because 1t does not show any additi