Smith v. Jones

This appeal is from an order of the orphans court surcharging the final account of the administrator with $3,000. Mary P. Jones died in July, 1916, intestate, leaving a son, daughter and two grandsons, children of a deceased son. After a contest between them for administration, the court appointed a stranger, Clarence C. Smith, who administered, and submitted his account for confirmation. The two grandsons filed an exception, setting up that the administrator had failed to charge himself with $3,000, money of the defendant, alleged to have been unlawfully obtained from her by her two…