Executors of Baker v. Johnston

The Ordinary.

The question presented on this appeal is whether the executors are entitled to commissions upon the money received by them on the sale of certain real estate, part of the residue. By the will they are made trustees of the residue, to convert and invest it, and to divide it when the youngest of the children of the testator shall have attained to majority, and part of it is to be held by them in trust, after the division, for the lifetime of the testator’s daughters. The orphans court refused to allow commissions on the money received for the land. This was erroneous. The…