Jones' Adm'r v. Jones' Ex'or

Citations

• 86 Va. 845
• 11 S.E. 426
• 1890 Va. LEXIS 51

Syllabus

<p>Executors—Liability—Case at bar.—Where the will gave executor a wide discretion in dealing with testator’s estate, and the condition thereof was such as fully justified his course, and he appropriated some of it to himself, but was “ honest and faithful in all things”: held, his conduct should be judged by the discretion given him, taken in connection with the condition of the estate, rather than by the strict rules of the law as to fiduciaries, and he should not be held accountable for losses which may-have resulted from errors of judgment.</p>