Keller's Estate

Citations

• 224 Pa. 523
• 73 A. 926
• 1909 Pa. LEXIS 834

Syllabus

<p>Will — Accounting—Executors and administrators — Exemption from filing account.</p> <p>Where a testator gives his entire estate to his wife for life and after her death to his son, and appoints the widow and son executors, with a direction that they shall not be required to file any account, the representatives of the widow after the death of the son surviving the widow, cannot in the absence of fraud, or any allegation thereof, compel the representatives of the son to file an account on the ground that the son had converted the assets, and had not paid the income to his. mother during her life. In such a case if there is any right of recovery, the remedy is at law for the recovery of a debt.</p>