Clyde's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Maxey,

The principal question presented here by the appellant is whether her deceased husband’s executor and trustee had a right, nearly two years after decedent’s death, to give a mortgage on his real estate to secure his indebtedness to a creditor. She denied that he had. Her exceptions to appellee’s account as fiduciary were dismissed. This appeal followed.

Decedent died on October 3, 1928; his will named appellee, Robert H. Little, executor and trustee. Decedent’s assets consisted of real estate in Westmoreland County, much of which was unimproved and unproductive, and…