Estate of Anderson v. Anderson

OPINION

By MATTHEWS, J.

The first question raised by this appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton county is whether executors appointed on December 14th, 1931, who failed to sell corporate stocks, owned by the estate, sufficient to pay debts and legacies within three months of their appointment are liable in the absence of any fraud or negligence, to residuary legatees for the difference between the selling price and the lowest market price during the three month period immediately succeeding their appointment.

At the time of the death of William Harvey Anderson he was under very few…