La Rocca Trust

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Eagen,

Joe La Rocca is the trustee of certain real estate for the benefit of his grandson.1 This is an appeal from a decree below confirming his first account (to which the beneficiary filed multiple objections) and refusing to remove the trustee.

Primarily, the contest involves moneys allegedly expended by the trustee in improving real property *178(the trust res) by the construction of a new building thereon.

Appellant first asserts that the payments for the cost of construction were presumptively gratuitous additions to the trust corpus, on the grounds that there was a prior…