IN RE MILD


25 N.J. 467 (1957)

136 A.2d 875

IN THE MATTER OF JOHN MILD, DECEASED. CATHERINE DORN, SUBSTITUTED ADMINISTRATRIX OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN MILD, DECEASED, AND HARTFORD ACCIDENT AND INDEMNITY COMPANY, ACCOUNTANTS-APPELLANTS, v. KATALIN SCHEUER, ET AL., EXCEPTANTS-RESPONDENTS.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided December 16, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Samuel A. Larner argued the cause for the appellants (Mr. Mervin Herzfeld and Messrs. Budd, Larner & Kent, attorneys).

Mr. Morton Stavis argued the cause for the respondents (Messrs. Gross, Blumberg, Goldberger & Stavis, attorneys).


The opinion of the court was delivered by PROCTOR, J.

This is an appeal by Catherine Dorn, substituted administratrix of the estate of John Mild, and the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, her surety, from a judgment of the Bergen County Court sustaining objections to her final accounting and surcharging her for the sum of $32,164.70, which was embezzled from the estate by her attorney, Charles Halstead. The case was certified by this court on its own motion...

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