Ralston's Estate

Citations

• 158 Pa. 645
• 28 A. 139
• 1893 Pa. LEXIS 1645

Syllabus

<p>Executors and administrators — Acceptance or renunciation.</p> <p>The time when it becomes imperative for an executor named to accept or renounce is when he is cited to do so, and mere inaction or delay, unaccompanied by any acts of intermeddling with the estate, cannot amount to an acceptance against his consent.</p> <p>The payment of the funeral expenses of decedent, their father, by sons, named as executors, will not charge them as executors where the payment was not made with funds of the estate, and they renounce when cited to qualify.</p> <p>Decedent's estate — Res judicata.</p> <p>Where a judgment is attacked in the common pleas by a judgment creditor it cannot be subsequently attacked on distribution in the orphans’ court by the same party.</p>