Commonwealth Ex Rel. Flowers v. Flowers

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

The appellants seek to surcharge the committee of a lunatic. They were unsuccessful in the court below, which unanimously dismissed their exceptions to the account.

Their animadversion to the committee’s conduct in the main arises out of its holding of certain securities, received by it as part of the lunatic’s estate, during a rapid decline in tbeir market price. They argue their contentions as if the rules which apply to the management of trust estates are applicable to the acts of committees in lunacy, and as if it Avas the duty of the committee to convert the…