Overman's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from tlie Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1878, No. 91. Certified from the Eastern District. Appeal of Mary B. Overman from the decreo'of the court dismissing her exceptions to the report of the auditor to whom was referred the accounts of the surviving executors of William Richardson, deceased.
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Appeal from tlie Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1878, No. 91. Certified from the Eastern District. Appeal of Mary B. Overman from the decreo'of the court dismissing her exceptions to the report of the auditor to whom was referred the accounts of the surviving executors of William Richardson, deceased. William Richardson died in 1866. leaving a will, of which the following are the material clauses : Item Ninth. — The said income so directed to bo paid by my said executors shall bo paid to my said children and grandchild, in such way and manner that the same shall be…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Agnew
We must take the facts of this case as found by the auditor. They exhibit a devastavit by George J. Richardson, one of the executors and trustees, of a gross kind. Want of harmony in the execution of the trust, loose and careless management, failure to keep proper accounts of their doings, great delay, absence from the trust, improvident loans of very large sums of money, and gross mismanagement, seem to have characterized their transactions. It is upon such a case, the question arises, whether under the will of William Richardson, his father, George J. Richardson, one of the trustees, guilty…
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