Philadelphia Reports Volume 20 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the will, with the exception of one for the benefit of Hannah Morgan, are at an end, and the estate is now distributable. There will be no further duty for the trustees than to carry out this trust for Hannah Morgan, and she by a writing filed in this case, "protests and objects to the granting of the prayer of this petitioner." The petition is dismissed. F. A. Sobemheimer, Esq., for petitioner. Wm. G. Foulke, Isaac S. Sharp and Alexander Simpson, Jr., Esqs., for respondent. [Leg. Int., Vol. 47, p. 212.] Estate of John C. Moore, late a minor. The departure of a trustee from the strict line of his duty, although without injury to the estate, and without any fraud on his part, may be a sufficient reason for disallowing his claim for commissions; but in the case of a guardian, such delinquency will not prevent the award of suitable compensation for services rendered to the ward personally. Sur exceptions to adjudication. Opinion delivered May 3, 1890, by Ashman, J.?The accountant and the father of the minor for a short time jointly conducted a private seminary, which was originally founded by the accountant. The father contributed $2000 in cash to the capital, while the interest of the accountant consisted of school apparatus of an equivalent value. On the death of the father, the accountant, as surviving partner, handed over to the widow and administratrix in settlement of the decedent's interest, a certain sum in cash and a promissory note for $2000; and soon afterwards, on the application of the mother, he was appointed guardian of the exceptant. He never invested the money represented by the note, but he charged himself in his account with the note and with interest thereon as it accrued. That he was in default in this regard was tacitly confessed by his wai...