Norwich bulletin., 1922-03-24
SHUMWAY GIVES APPROVAL
 TO ACCOUNT OF JOHN [. GEARY

was made " ne a3min.s.fa or un:l 1920.
 15-In July, 1895, the said John c. Geary began to advance money to Mrs. Bentley as administratrix and on her personal account, and in the same year, and continuing thereafter said Geary received, from various sources, money belonging to the estate of Andrew J. Bentley and some belonging to Mrs. Bent ley personally.
 16-The money received by MT. Geary from 1895 to 1907 belonging to the estate of Andrew J. Bentley amounted to considerable in the aggregate between S70,000 and $S0,0O0 and all these amounts were deposited by him in. his personal bank account. No book mem orandum or entries, with few exceptions, were kept of the money received by him, but according to his usual prac- tice, when he received money he entered the amount upon slips of paper which vsare kept within the leaves of his check book, and at intervals he would send these slips to the office of the Bentley estate where the lumber bus mess was conducted.
 17-None of the checks evidencing payments to Mrs. Bentley were produced in evidence. It is found that such checks are lost or destroyed. The ap- pellee offered in evidence the check books, as they were called, being the stubs from which the checks had been talk en. The stubs contained usually the date when a check was drawn, the amount of the check, the person to whom payable, and sometimes the purpose for which the check was drawn. To the admission of these stubs and the entries ehereon, in evidence. the appellants ob7 | jected, but they were admitted, to which action the appellants took excep- l ton.
 1 1S-Julia c. Bentley kept no books of 1 accounts wherein were entered transac- ] tions relating to the estate. other than 1 such accounts as were kept in the lum- Der business during the time it was car l ried on from 1895 to 1901.
 19-From the time of Andrew J. Bent i ley's death to the time of Mrs. Bent 1 ley's death, she continued to reside in the homestead occupied by the family 1 at the time of her husbands death, with her five children, and. in connec- i ton with the house, she maintained a l small farm. During the period she kept l at least one servant, and sometimes i two, and supported her family. She kept ponies for the use of her children and driving horses for the use of her ! education for her children, partially in the public schools of New London. and sent her daughters Abbie and Ruth for three years to a boarding school at Bal tic, in this state, and later Addie had three years in college and a musical ed ucation and it is probable that the en- tire family expenses were S3,000 a year and I so find. although there was nc
 evidence showing exactly the family ex- penses during this period.
 Judge Shumway's report includes the
 two accounts filed by Administrator Geary, one before the probate court in 1920 and the other the new account filed during the trial of the case.
 Regarding the latter account, Judge Shumway closed his report as follows
 q find that Exhibit C. (the second 1 account) is as nearly a correct state.
 ment of administration account as it iS
 possible to state at the present time
 If, as a matter of law, the administrator
 can charge the estate with the family
 expenses during the twelve years from the death of Andrew J. Bentley unti the death of Julia C. Bentley, although it does not appear that any order for
 the family support was made after the first year, then the account Exhibit c
 is correct. It IS probable that the fam fly expenses were at least the sun
 named during the period and I finG
 therefore the sum of S37 300 was expend
 ed for the family support during the in-
 terval of twelve years and six months l The account of Julia C. Bentley, ad
 minstratrix of the estate of A. J. Bent
 ley. which Judge Shumway finds corTc covers from March IT. 1895 to Aug
 29 1907. It shows sS2,500 inventory
 value of real estate, S99,854.01 inventor! value of N1rsonaI property. S62.851.1o re
 ciepts bg administrative from sales O
 real estate and $11,963.55 receipts bl
 adrin1stratrix of interest, dividends, ant
 gains on personal property, making tota
 receipts of s257 ,16S66
 On the other side of the account ar
 shown among other payments the sun
 of S9,22793 advanced to Mrs. Julia C
 Bentley for Mrs, Carrie B. Gerard. S37,
 800 charged to Mrs. Bentley for suppor
 of herself and five children, $4,000 pai John C. Geary for services in full t Nov 13, 1903, SS,278.66 for taxes, $1. 23982 interest on taxes, s3000 to Will fam Narooney for wages, S47, ,19969 i
 unpaid bills against the estate. The inventory value of personal pror