McGuffey's Estate

Opinion by

Parker, J.,

These appeals are from a decree of distribution by an orphans’ court after the filing of an account by a trustee. Complaints are made of the commission allowed the trustee and of a part of the order which permitted the trustee to deliver to the appellants participation certificates in a mortgage pool in lieu of cash demanded by them. Robert McGuffey at the time of his death on February 17, 1917, was the owner of an undivided one- third of a valuable tract of coal land. He left to survive him a widow, Harriet McGuffey, and nine children, three of whom were minors. The…