Fulmer's Estate

Citations

• 243 Pa. 226
• 89 A. 974
• 1914 Pa. LEXIS 603

Syllabus

<p>Decedent’s estates — Executors and administrators — Date of distribution — Unauthorized acts — Surcharge.</p> <p>1. Where a will showed that the testator contemplated a settlement of hiB estate within three years from the date of his death, hut the executor by trading in the real estate and securities prolonged the period of distribution several years, whereby losses resulted, the court made no error in surcharging the executor with such losses and with payments for which the estate was not liable.</p> <p>Practice, Supreme Court — Appeals—Decree—Assignments of error.</p> <p>'2. An appeal from a decree of distribution of the Orphans’ Court is defective where the decree has not been assigned as error.</p>