Hays's Estate

Citations

• 153 Pa. 328
• 25 A. 822
• 1893 Pa. LEXIS 1103

Syllabus

<p>Trusts — Counsel fees — Decedent's estate.</p> <p>Where an executor wastes the personal property of an estate, and the trustee of legatees whose legacies are charged on both the real and personal property, employs counsel and raises a fund through the sale of the real estate of the defaulting executor, and thus relieves the rest of testator’s estate from loss, the trustee is entitled to the payment of his counsel fees out of testator’s estate.</p>