SCOTT ESTATE

No. 1292 of 1941.

34 Pa. D. & C. 2d 727 (1965)

Scott Estate

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

January 18, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip A. Bregy, for exceptant.

William H. Lathrop, Samuel J. Logan, Thomas N. O'Neill, Jr., and William H. S. Wells, contra.

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


SAYLOR, J., January 18, 1965.

The issue here is the authority of an auditing judge in awarding $20,000 in commissions on principal as extra compensation to trustees for services rendered over a 21-year period in a trust estate awarded to them in 1942 after they had received full commissions on principal in their capacity as executors.

The testator died in 1940 leaving a will in which he named his brother, his wife and Girard Trust Company (now Girard Trust...

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