LOVERING ESTATE

No. 417.

27 Pa. D. & C. 2d 501 (1962)

Lovering Estate

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

June 8, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert G. Erskine of Raspin, Espenshade, Heins, Erskine & Stewart, for exceptants.

William H. S. Wells of Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul, contra.

Ralph C. Donohue, for Commonwealth.

Before Klein, P. J., Bolger, Lefever, Saylor, Shoyer and Burke, JJ.


LEFEVER, J., June 8, 1962.

The exceptions raise two questions: . . . (2) did the auditing judge err in the amount of compensation he awarded to the trustee?

. . . . .

2. Trustee's Compensation

"`The rule as to commissions in all cases is compensation for the responsibility incurred and the service and labor performed'": Gardner's Estate, 323 Pa. 229, 238, and cases cited. "Compensation, of course, is not a

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