Case Name: Hosea Brewster, Appellant from a Decree of the Judge of Probate, versus Westling Brewster
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1811-10
Citations: 7 Tyng 131
Docket Number: 
Parties: *Hosea Brewster, Appellant from a Decree of the Judge of Probate, versus Westling Brewster.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 8
Pages: 114–115

Head Matter:
*Hosea Brewster, Appellant from a Decree of the Judge of Probate, versus Westling Brewster.
An administrator may not charge, in his administration account, the expenses of the support and education of the infant child and heir of his intestate.
The respondent, being administrator of the estate of Rebecca Brewster, (mother of the appellant, he being her only child and heir,) had rendered to the judge of probate his account of administration, in which, among other things, he had made sundry charges against the estate of the deceased for the expenses of boarding, clothing, and schooling the appellant since the decease of his mother. The judge of probate had allowed those charges, and passed the administration account.

Opinion:
Upon this objection, apparent upon inspection of the account. the decree was reversed, and the record remitted to the judge of probate, for his further conduct in the premises, agreeably to law.