Kramer's Estate

Citations

• 255 Pa. 595
• 100 A. 447
• 1917 Pa. LEXIS 500

Syllabus

<p>Decedents’ estates — Executors and administrators —r-Accounts —Administration—Distribution—Mingling accounts — Surcharge.</p> <p>1. Where an executor fails to collect sound assets of a decedent’s estate, nothing but payment by him or upon his account can properly relieve him of responsibility for such assets.</p> <p>2. In filing accounts in the Orphans’ Court, it is bad practice to mingle a distribution account with the administration account.</p> <p>3. The only way in which distribution can safely be made, is in obedience to a decree of the court, on the audit of an account, or statement filed in the manner prescribed by law.</p>