Casely's Estate

Citations

• 23 Pa. Super. 646
• 1903 Pa. Super. LEXIS 137

Syllabus

<p>Trusts and trustees — Commissions—Employment of real estate agent— Collection of rent by trustee.</p> <p>Where a trust estate consists of an interest in a number of small houses in a city, and the trustee and other parties have also an interest in the houses, the fact that the trustee had at times collected rents and paid them over to a real estate agent employed by all of the owners to collect and distribute the rents, does not prevent the trustee from claiming in his account, not only his own five per cent commissions as trustee, but also five per cent commissions paid to the real estate agent.</p> <p>Decedent's estates — Counsel fees — Findings of fact.</p> <p>Where the amount of a trustee’s claim for counsel fees has been contested before the auditing judge, but the auditing judge has found that the claim is reasonable, such finding confirmed by the court in banc will not be disturbed by the appellate court in the absence of clear error.</p>