In re Estate of Lightner

Citations

• 187 Pa. 237
• 41 A. 46
• 1898 Pa. LEXIS 796

Syllabus

<p>Estoppel — Adjudication—Orphans' court.</p> <p>No estoppel arises by a former adjudication in the orphans’ court unless there is an identity of partios as well as subject-matter.</p> <p>Trusts and trustees — Investments—Duty of trustee.</p> <p>Where a trustee, in pursuance of a family arrangement to which all persons ini crested in the trust estate were parties, permits a loan to remain uncollected for nineteen years, he will not be surcharged with the loss of the fund caused by the delay, especially if it is not at all clear that he was at any time able to make the collodion.</p>