In re the Appeal from the Decree of the Orphans Court

Sooy, Vice-Ordinary.

This is an appeal from a decree entered by the Atlantic County Orphans Court on an accounting of trustees, in which decree the accountant is surcharged the amount of certain investments made by it while acting as trustee, which investments consisted of four participations in mortgages on land situate in the State of Pennsylvania, which investments were not “legáis” in New Jersey.

The decree also denied to the accountant any commissions and ordered that the accountant pay the costs of a reference to a special master, also a counsel fee to counsel for the exceptants, also the…