Schauble Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

These are appeals from the imposition of a surcharge upon the administrator d. b. n. c. t. a. of a decedent’s estate. From a maze of acrimonious family litigation and procedural complications there emerges ‘a situation which, when all the factual underbrush has been cleared away, presents for solution no really difficult legal problem.

Decedent, Bertha Baur Schauble, died in 1936, leaving a will in which she gave a life interest in her residuary estate to her husband, with remainder to her surviving brothers and sisters and the children of predeceased…