2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 52-404. Accounting between coexecutors and cotenants.
Sec. 52-404. Accounting between coexecutors and cotenants. (a) A residuary
legatee, when all or any part of his legacy is withheld from him by an executor, may
bring an action for an accounting against the executor for the recovery thereof. An
executor, who is also residuary legatee, when all or any part of his legacy is withheld
from him by his coexecutor, may bring an action for an accounting against his coexecutor
for the recovery thereof.
(1949 Rev., S. 8148; P.A. 82-160, S. 146.)
History: P.A. 82-160 replaced "estate" with "property", rephrased the section and inserted Subsec. indicators.
Account does not lie between executors, merely as such; 5 C. 26; nor between cotenants, where there are more than two. 16 C. 341. Tenant making necessary repairs may recover of his cotenants their share of the expense. 50 C. 256. In determining the "due proportion" of each cotenant, all equities are to be considered. 82 C. 425. Cited. 25 C. 148; 110 C. 656. At common law cotenant in possession was not accountable to cotenant for anything received from common estate. 118 C. 17.
Cited. 5 CA 457, 458, 461.
Subsec. (b):
Cited. 222 C. 150, 151.
Cited. 14 CA 402, 407, 408.
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