Hart's Estate

Citations

• 203 Pa. 492

Syllabus

<p>Trust and trustees — Accounts—Appeals—Review.</p> <p>The Supreme Court will not consider ten closely written pages of an account, containing over 1,000 items, about one half on the credit and one half on the debtor side of the account, to discover whether income and principal have been properly apportioned under a will, where the attention of the court has not been called to any particular erroneous charges in the account based on the construction of the will suggested by the appellant, and where no error is so manifest from an inspection of the account as to move the court to set aside the decree of the court below.</p> <p>Wills— Codicils— Unexecuted codicil.</p> <p>Where a testator has prepared and has approved a codicil, but dies before executing it, and his children, the four immediate beneficiaries under his will, sign and execute a writing that it is their wish that the-codicil should be carried out as if it had been regularly executed, a. son who subsequentlv becomes the administrator of his sister who had signed the writing, cannot, as such administrator, deny the validity of the codicil in the Supreme Court, where it appears that he made no objection to it in the court below.</p>