ESTATE OF SAWYER v. CROWELL

No. 85-192.

559 A.2d 687 (1989)

ESTATE OF Thomas C. SAWYER by the HOWARD BANK v. Charles E. CROWELL and Crowell, England & Co.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

March 24, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome F. O'Neill and Geoffrey W. Crawford of Manchester & O'Neill, P.C., Burlington, for plaintiff-appellee.

David Putter and Norman Watts, Jr., Law Clerk (on the brief) of Putter & Unger Associates, Montpelier, for defendant-appellant.

Before ALLEN, C.J., PECK and GIBSON, JJ., and BARNEY, C.J. (Ret.) and KEYSER, J. (Ret.), Specially Assigned.


GIBSON, Justice.

Defendant, Charles E. Crowell,1 appeals a decision of the Chittenden Superior Court ordering him to pay the sum of $50,000 to the plaintiff, the Estate of Thomas C. Sawyer (Estate), an estate administered under the jurisdiction of the Chittenden Probate Court. Attorney John Durrance served as administrator of the Estate from the death of Thomas Sawyer in 1980 until March of 1982. The superior court determined that defendant...

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