In re Kenworthy's Estate
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from surrogate’s court, Dutchess county. Final accounting of Bichará A. Kenworthy and Alanson H. Saxton, executors of Thomas Kenvvorthy. Martha J. Kenworthy, executrix, appeals from a decree disallowing her commissions, authorizing the executors as trustees to retain commissions on the trust fund in advance, and apportioning a tax assessed on “the estate of Thomas Ken worthy” upon a trust fund in the executor’s hands and the balance of the estate.
1Opinion of the CourtPratt, J.
Section 2736 of the Code provides that, where a decedent’s personal estate amounts to $100,000 or more over all debts, each executor, not exceeding three, is entitled to full compensation, unless the court shall appor*656tian the aggregate according to the services rendered. I do not understand that the power to apportion includes the power totally to abate any executor’s compensation, except, possibly, in the ease of misconduct, resulting in loss, or where the net estate is less than $100,000. There seems to have been no occasion to apportion the aggregate in this case; at least no such thing…
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