Ashman's Estate

Citations

• 218 Pa. 509

Syllabus

<p>Practice, O. C. — Accounts—Auditor—Distribution.</p> <p>An auditor who had been appointed to pass upon exceptions filed to a particular account of a trustee, and to distribute such balance as he would find to be, among those entitled to receive it, has no power to charge the accountant with certain balances which it was alleged remained unpaid to some of the distributees on a former account. In such a case the auditor must confine himself strictly to the account which he was appointed to audit.</p> <p>Trusts and trustees — Commissions—Compensation.</p> <p>Where a trustee has for a period of four years given constant and careful attention to the trust estate, and his management has been attended with success and with profitable results to the beneficiaries, the appellate court will not reverse the orphans’ court in allowing the trustee a compensation somewhat in excess of the per centum rate usually allowed in such cases.</p>