Gardner's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Maxey,

Appellant, guardian of the estates of three minor remaindermen, complains of the failure of the court below, in adjudicating the surviving executor’s account, to surcharge it because of the shrinkage in the value of securities it held when it should have sold them (so appellant contends) in order to discharge debts of the estate. Complaint is also made of the allowance of executor’s commissions,

The testator, Gardner, died on December 28, 1930, possessed of a large estate, inventoried at $887,581.77, consisting almost entirely of marketable common stocks. By the…