Sheridan's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

This is a proceeding to review an executor’s account and to surcharge it, commenced almost five years after the account was filed and confirmed and distribution of the balance, which it showed, made to, among others, the petitioners for the review, the present appellants, residuary legatees under the will of the decedent. Those bringing such a proceeding carry a somewhat heavy burden: Bailey’s Est., 291 Pa. 423; Given’s Est., 292 Pa. 483.

James H. Sheridan, the testator, at the time of the occurrences out of which this controversy grows, prior thereto and until…