Estate of Hamon

The appellant, Ada Miriam Parker, was appointed ¡executrix of the will of Mary A. Hamon, and also a trustee to receive certain property devised thereunder and to manage it as directed by the will. The will was probated and in due time the court made its final decree of distribution by which one-half of the property was distributed -to Ada Miriam Parker individually, and the other half, consisting of $3,695.14 in cash and small items of personal property, to her as trustee for Percival James Langdon. She loaned the money held in trust upon real estate security. A more detailed statement will be made of this transaction later. However, this mortgage was subsequently foreclosed and the appellant, at the foreclosure sale, as trustee, bought the property for $5,079.57, being the full amount of the principal, interest, judgment, and costs. The trustee reported to the court under section 1699 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and prayed for her discharge. Thereupon Lang-don appeared and filed objections to the report on the ground that the real estate security was valueless and also of alleged negligence on the part of the trustee in making the loan. Upon the hearing the trial court…