Gerber's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Linn,

Appellant, in 1931, under a trust created by his father, was entitled to income during his mother’s life and to y2 the corpus on her death. She died December 10, 1937. The trustee then filed its account. From the audit statement it appeared that appellant had assigned his interest in the corpus — a sum in the neighborhood of $25,000 — and that the assignees were entitled under the assignment. No exceptions were filed to the account but before the amount for distribution had become payable to appellant’s assignees, the appellants on March 22, 1938, filed a petition…