Estate of Bruner

BECK, Judge.

Harold R. Fox, executor of the estate of Alla S. Bruner, challenges the trial court’s decree which: 1) confirmed the report of an auditor concluding that the residue of the estate should pass through intestacy rather than under the proposed distribution submitted by the executor; 2) confirmed the auditor’s finding that Fox should be surcharged for excessive counsel fees paid by the estate and for failure promptly to invest estate assets; and 3) directed payment from the estate of attorney’s fees incurred by the heir who challenged Fox’s accounting of the estate. After careful…