Maurice Estate

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that Orphans’ Court erred in failing to impose burden of proof on executor to provide a reasonable explanation for his actions following demonstration by estate heirs that he had substantially overpaid federal estate tax
• executor surcharged for failing to compute the estate tax liability properly
• “This glaring error in overpayment of tax having been shown, it is the burden of the executor to come forward with evidence to prove that, in handling the federal estate tax matters, it used common skill, prudence and due care under the circumstances”

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