case brown against litton if the captain of a trade vessel die on the voyage  and the mate take upon he the management of his investment the court of  chancery will allow he a reasonable recompense for his care and trouble and  oblige he to account for the profit and not permit he to take the capital at a  respondentia interest S c Peer wms S c Eq Abr S c Reg lib a fol a master of a  ship go a trade voyage beyond sea the succeed master open the effect of the  decease in the presence of the crew and then send a letter with a bind enclose  to the widow of the decease whereby he bind himself to answer to her the sum  of three hundred pound if the ship arrive safe the sum the decease leave be  two hundred pound which be the rate of respondentia bind there the master  trade and make three hundred per cent of the money the question be whether he  shall be bind to any more than this bind or answer to the widow the profit of  the money make in the way of trade the counsel for the master will have  resemble it to the case of a executor or trustee who shall be Accountable for  the interest only and former for the money only it be say also that if this  money have be lose in the way of trade the master will have be Accountable the  counsel on the other side and Harcourt Lord keeper too think it differ from  the case of a executor because the ship be to go a trade voyage and the money  be design to be lie out in trade and the succeed master be in effect but a  trustee for the representative of the former and they hold that if he trade  with the money as with his own with care and prudence and then through any  accident the money be lose he will not be Accountable modern report it be  therefore decree that he shall account to the widow for the profit make by the  trade deduct reasonable allowance for labour and skill Harcourt Lord keeper  think this resolution necessary for the encouragement of trade it be a comfort  to a man to know that if he shall die the improvement of his effect in the way  of trade by the succeed master shall be for the advantage modern report er p  of his family if a trustee empower to put money to interest let the money lie  by he be shall be Accountable for interest and if a trustee trade with the  money be shall be Accountable not for interest only but for the profit of the  trade because he act of his own head and at his own peril without apply to the  court of chancery for direction in dispose of the money easter term the ten of  queen whether in the queen bench sir Thomas Parker Knt chief justice sir  Littleton powys Knt sir Robert Eyre Knt sir Thomas powys Knt justice sir  Edward Northey Knt attorneygeneral sir Robert Raymond Knt solicitor general