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WILLIAMSON ESTATE

368 Pa. 343 (1951)

Williamson Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Reargued May 24, 1951.

June 27, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas B.K. Ringe, with him John R. McConnell and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, for appellant.

W. Albert Sanders, for appellee.

Morris Duane, with him Maurice Heckscher and Duane, Morris & Heckscher, for T. Williams Roberts, Trustee, amicus curiae.

Before DREW, C.J., STERN, STEARNE, JONES, BELL and CHIDSEY, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ALLEN M. STEARNE, June 27, 1951:

A corporate fiduciary presents a "test case" seeking to induce this Court to overrule a long line of cases extending for over a century and a half which established principles of fiduciary compensation. The appeals are an effort to induce a general revision of the compensation of trustees. It constitutes an almost perennial attempt by corporate fiduciaries to secure increased compensation and also...

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