Estate of Victoria S. Murray, Dec'd.

Opinion by

Keller, J.,

The court below sustained an exception to an account filed by the executrix of a deceased trustee, and surcharged the accountant with $191.86, credit taken for accountant’s commissions on the corpus, — 2% on $9,593. The court based its action on the ground that in the absence of exceptional circumstances justifying a departure from the general rule, — which, it was said, were not here present — ,. commissions upon the corpus of a trust estate are not allowable except when the trust is terminated and the fund is in the course of distribution. The court below rested its…