Sullivan

Sullivan v. Crew

Good Law
119 Cal. 156·1897 Cal. LEXIS 870·51 P. 47
Supreme Court of CaliforniaDecember 2, 1897Sac. No. 306California343 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Searls, J.

This is an appeal from an order of the superior court in and for the county of Butte settling the third annual account of A. H. Crew and F. C. Lusk, trustees, for the year 1895, under the last will and testament of O. C. Pratt, deceased.

The appellants filed exceptions to the report, which were overruled upon the hearing, and an order entered approving the account, from which order this appeal is prosecuted.

Two or three minor objections Avere made to the account at the hearing, and the action of the court thereon is assigned as error. One of these briefly stated is as follows: Appellants sought to enter upon an examination of items charged up in the *157 accounts rendered and settled by the court in 1894 and 1895. This was objected to, the objection sustained, and an exception noted.

The ruling was correct. The accounts, when once settled and approved, were only subject to direct attack by motion to open or other like remedy in the superior court or on appeal. There was also an objection to an item of thirty dollars paid to a bookkeeper.

The record shows no evidence upon which to predicate an objection to this item, except that the bookkeeper was a relative of trustee Crew…

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