Estates of Wistar
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 44 and 45, Jan. T., 1899, by G. Washington Powell and William Gorman, executors of Richard Wistar, deceased, and G. Washington Powell and William Gorman, executors of William Lewis Wistar, deceased, from decrees of O. C. Phila. Co., Oct. T., 1894, Nos. 70 and 71, dismissing exceptions to adjudication. Exceptions to adjudication.
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Appeals, Nos. 44 and 45, Jan. T., 1899, by G. Washington Powell and William Gorman, executors of Richard Wistar, deceased, and G. Washington Powell and William Gorman, executors of William Lewis Wistar, deceased, from decrees of O. C. Phila. Co., Oct. T., 1894, Nos. 70 and 71, dismissing exceptions to adjudication. Exceptions to adjudication. The facts were stated by Ferguson, J., the auditing judge, as follows: In the account of the accountant as administrator c. t. a. of William Lewis Wistar’s estate, he has taken credit for commissions : Three per cent on $669,566.49 . . . $20,086.99…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Mitchell,
William Lewis Wistar died in February, 1894, and his brother, who was his executor and sole devisee, died in the following April. They owned a large amount of property in common, and naturally the administration of the two estates ran very *298much together. The court below, therefore, for convenience, and apparently with general consent, treated them as one, and they have been argued here together.
The only question necessary for us to notice, and that briefly, is the compensation to the accountant and Ms counsel. This is objected to as excessive. The amount is…
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