Andrews v. Andrews

The Surrogate.

The accounts of the executor and executrix are admitted without objection, except as to a charge of interest which the executor has made for an amount due him at the testator’s decease, and which remained unpaid for two years and eight months. There is *100no reason why an executor should not have interest on a debt due him. by the testator, the same as other creditors of the estate. If it be said that he was in funds to pay himself, that would, of course, extinguish his claim for interest, if he actually used the fund, but this does not appear to have been the fact in the present…