Kalbfell's Estate
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 85 and 86, April T., 1901, by James Fitzsimmons and Arch. H. Rowand, Jr., from decree of O. C. Allegheny Oo., March T., 1897, No. 74, dismissing exceptions to adjudication in estate of John Kalbfell. Exceptions to adjudication. The facts sufficiently appear by the opinion of the Superior Court. Frror assigned was in dismissing exceptions to adjudication.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
William W. Porter, J.,
The appellants ask us to reverse a decree of the orphans’ court allowing them $300 for professional services rendered the executor of Kalbfell’s will, instead of nearly $4,000, the amount demanded.
We have said in McKown’s Estate (see ante), and say again, that in the allowance of fees to counsel for accountants in the settlement of decedents’ estates, the orphans’ court must be permitted to exercise a broad discretion, and in order to induce this court to overturn such decrees, a case of clear abuse must be shown. The learned judge in the case before us has not…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Rowand v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1899
3Cited by2 opinions
- Casely's EstateSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1903
- Kujack's EstatePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County · 1924