Marsteller's Estate

Citations

• 76 Pa. Super. 377
• 1921 Pa. Super. LEXIS 157

Syllabus

<p>Decedents’ estates — Executors—Accounts—Assets received after filing account — Citation for supplemental account.</p> <p>Where an executor’s account has been confirmed and distribution made, and subsequently judgments in fayor of the decedent and against one of the executors, which were held by a bank as collateral, are assigned to the executors who satisfy the judgments, it is error for the orphans’ court, on petition of a legatee, to refuse to cite the executors to filé a supplemental account coyering the amount of the judgments.</p> <p>.There is nothing to prevent a call upon the executors to file a supplemental account where goods, chattels and moneys have come into their hands after filing their first account. The account is conclusive only as to those matters accounted for.</p> <p>The orphans’ court has exclusive jurisdiction pertaining to the settlement and distribution of an estate, including the claims of creditors, legatees and the next of kin.</p>