Brent's Adm'r v. Clevinger

Citations

• 78 Va. 12
• 1883 Va. LEXIS 3

Syllabus

<p>1. Personal Representatives-War interest.--Administrator residing during the late war in Winchester, is not liable for interest on funds of the estate in his hands during that period. Lacy v. Stamper and als., 27 Gratt. 42.</p> <p>2. Idem-Commissions.-Under the circumstances an administrator there residing, is entitled to be allowed commissions during the period of the war.</p> <p>3. Idem-Idetn.-Act of 1st March, 1867, authorizes the allowance or the refusal of commissions to a fiduciary after failure to settle his accounts, but does not invest the court with an arbitrary, but with only a sound judicial discretion, subject to review in an appellate court. Code 1873, ch. I28, \\ 9.</p>