Nolde's Estate

Citations

• 27 Pa. Super. 413
• 1904 Pa. Super. LEXIS 389

Syllabus

<p>Executors and administrators — Administrator of administrator — Accounts.</p> <p>Where an administrator has been awarded half the fund in his hands as one of the next of kin of the decedent, and it appears that the award included sums which the administrator had already distributed to himself, the administrator of the administrator will not be surcharged with the whole amount of the award, but will be responsible for that portion of it only which actually came into his hands.</p> <p>Executors and administrators — Expenses of suit.</p> <p>Where an administrator is substituted as a party defendant in a suit pending against the decedent at his death, and the administrator employs competent counsel and acts upon their advice, and seeks to preserve the estate for the benefit of all the creditors, he cannot be charged with the costs and expenses of defending the suit, although it may have ultimately gone against him.</p> <p>Executors and administrators — Cost of .copy of inventory.</p> <p>A credit of $1.00 to an administrator for a copy of the inventory is proper.</p> <p>Executors and administrators — Decedent’s estate — Traveling expenses of clergyman.</p> <p>Where no clergyman of the denomination to which the decedent belonged lived in the immediate neighborhood, and one is brought from another place, the traveling expenses of such clergyman paid by the administrator will be properly allowed as a credit in the administrator’s account.</p>