Crouse's Estate

Citations

• 16 Pa. Super. 212
• 1901 Pa. Super. LEXIS 47

Syllabus

<p>Executors and administrators — Negligence—Delay in filing account — Interest.</p> <p>Where an administrator has been negligent in the collection of a judgment, and has been guilty of unusual and culpable delay in filing his account, he is properly surcharged with interest on the balance in his hands.</p> <p>Executors and administrators — Partial and final accounts — Surcharge.</p> <p>An administrator may be surcharged with moneys that he should have received in the settlement of the estate at the audit of his account, which, although called a partial account, is in reality a final account covering the whole estate, except a judgment upon which nothing was likely to be collected.</p>