The defendant contended that the only claim of the plaintiffs was against the original administrator personally and that the action did not lie. Subsequently the original administrator resigned and the defendant was appointed administrator de bonis non Afterwards on settlement of the account of Charles Thompson of Kennebunk the error was discovered and thereupon the plaintiffs brought this action against the defendant as administrator de bonis non to recover the amount erroneously paid to the original administrator.
Before either account was settled Charles Thompson of Topsham died and his original administrator as such drew from the plaintiffs all the funds standing on their books to the credit of his intestate including the amount erroneously credited as above neither party being aware of the error. ”The plaintiffs who were foreign bankers having accounts with Charles Thompson of Kennebunk Me and also with Charles Thompson of Topsham, Me by mistake credited on their books to Charles Thompson of Topsham the defendant’s intestate a considerable sum received by them instead of to Charles Thompson of Kennebunk to whom it belonged. In October 1873 there was an estate action by the Court:
She had been married to Edwin Albert Scribner. He also married Ann Eugenia Thompson (1853) in Topsham and died (1919). He married Jane Hunter Whitney who had been born in (1829) Lubec, Maine and died (1866) in Topsham, Maine. Charles was married in 1849 in Topsham where he was born and died. Allen had a brother Carl who died young.Ĭharles Thompson(1789-1866) (R1 #6)married Anne E. Paul was an artist and married Maxine Crooker Wheeler(1919-1996) (R1 #2) who was the daughter of Harold Oliver Crooker. In 1940 Paul was living with his father, a mechanical engineer in a textile mill and had been an inspector of government vessels. Wheeler and Mary Ingraham Adams, married, IN 1908, Ethel Mae Purinton (1882-1922) (R1 #4) and they had Paul Purinton Wheeler(1916-1964) (R1 #1) and Francis Adams Wheeler (b. Allen Francis Wheeler (1879-1952) (R1 #3), son of Henry W.