In re the Estate of Read

Wingate, S.

As set forth in the petition and answer, the facts pertinent to this application for a compulsory accounting are somewhat unusual.

Thomas Read, Sr., died in July, 1872, leaving a holographic will by which his plumbing business was bequeathed to his eldest son, the balance of his real and personal property being devised and bequeathed to his wife, Sarah Ann Read, subject to an annuity of $500 to his mother, and payments of $5,000 each to his four sons on their respectively attaining their majority, and $3,000 to each of his daughters on attaining the age of eighteen.

The will then…