Coleman's Assigned Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 429, Jau. T., 1899, by Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities and Henry T. Kendall, Assignees, from order of C. P. Lebanon Co., Sept. T., 1893, No. 169, sustaining exceptions to auditor’s report in In re Assigned Estate of Robert H. Coleman. Exceptions to report of George B. Schock, Esq., auditor.
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Appeal, No. 429, Jau. T., 1899, by Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities and Henry T. Kendall, Assignees, from order of C. P. Lebanon Co., Sept. T., 1893, No. 169, sustaining exceptions to auditor’s report in In re Assigned Estate of Robert H. Coleman. Exceptions to report of George B. Schock, Esq., auditor. The material portions of the report of the auditor were as follows: The question of compensation has been so frequently litigated that the books are full of cases on the subject. Many of these cases have been carefully examined by your auditor. The principles…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Dean,
It is unnecessary to relate the facts which are fully and elaborately set forth by the auditor and learned court below; sufficient to say that the assigned estate was a very large one and one consisting of many kinds of assets, mainly railroad stock and bonds and interests in ore banks and iron furnaces. The whole assets were appraised at $4,141,126.92, of which $3,439,948.68 was designated as real estate, $712,177.92 was personal property, *40and in addition a large amount of property so indefinite in name and value that it was not specially detailed in the…
2Cited by1 opinion
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