Estate of Harriet B. Laverelle

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

The main question involved in this appeal is whether the orphans’ court has the right and power of its own volition to direct a testamentary trustee, to rent a safe deposit box in the name of the estate and keep therein the assets, separate and apart from his own property.. The learned court below correctly determined that it had.

Harriet B. Laverelle died on February 10,1929, having made her last will, dated June 25,1913, and a codicil, dated August 8, 1922, both of which were duly probated in Philadelphia County, and letters testamentary were granted thereon to Boland…