Shadle's Estate

Citations

• 30 Pa. Super. 160

Syllabus

<p>Decedents’ estates — Executors and, administrators — Costs:</p> <p>Where an auditor is appointed in pursuance of a contest raised by a guardian against an administrator’s account, it is no ground for putting the costs upon the guardian merely because the latter refused in good faith the accountant’s offer to compromise, and as a result of such refusal the minors got less under the auditor’s report than they would have secured under the compromise.</p> <p>Costs will not be imposed upon an accountant where they were not incurred solely by his dereliction.</p> <p>The orphans’ court being a court of equity is vested with a wide discretion upon the subject of the imposition of costs, and its decrees upon the subject will not be disturbed except for clear error.</p>