In re Estate of Bryan

DEL SOLE, Judge:

The instant appeal is from a final decree of distribution of an estate. At issue is an auditor’s characterization, confirmed by the orphans’ court below, of certain transactions as distributions of the estate to an heir which had the effect of denying that heir any share of final distribution. Also at issue is the claim that the settlement of the estate was unreasonably delayed. For the following reasons, the de*458cree of the orphans’ court is affirmed in part and reversed in part.

The procedural history of the instant case is as follows: On September 22, 1972, Corvan S. Bryan…