Arnold's Estate

Citations

• 252 Pa. 298
• 97 A. 415
• 1916 Pa. LEXIS 609

Syllabus

<p>Decedents’ estates — Executors and administrators — Counsel fees —Issue devisavit vel non.</p> <p>1. An executor or administrator who becomes a party to an issue devisavit vel non cannot charge expenses so incurred to the estate unless it is benefited thereby.</p> <p>2. A claim against a decedent’s estate for fees of counsel employed by an executor for the purpose of sustaining charitable and religious bequests and defeating the claim of the decedent’s husband was properly disallowed.</p>