In re the Estate of Price

Sheils, S.

The petitioner, the widow of this testator, has requested a decree construing said will and judicially determining:(a) Whether the maintenance charges and taxes for the upkeep of the real property of which decedent died seized should be charged against the principal of the estate rather than against the income thereof; and(b) Whether the trustee, in renouncing the amount of compensation offered by the testator in his will and accepting the statutory commissions allowed by law, is, nevertheless, bound by the direction of the testator to the effect that all compensation of the trustee…