Benezet v. Hess

Citations

• 63 Pa. Super. 408
• 1916 Pa. Super. LEXIS 177

Syllabus

<p>Executors and administrators — Trusts and trustees — Duty of trustees to act together — Agreement to pay for exchange of real estate — Wills.</p> <p>Where a testator appoints three executors with authority to exchange his real estate for other real estate, and. in turn again to sell the real estate so acquired, the executors in dealing with the real estate deal with it as trustees, and must act together. An agreement made by two without any participation of the third to pay another person a compensation for effecting an exchange of real estate, cannot he enforced against the estate.</p>