Good's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 870, Jan. T., 1892, by John Good, executor of George Good, deceased, from decree of O. G. Lycoming Co., dismissing exceptions to report of auditor on exceptions and to distribute executor’s account. The facts of this case are partially set forth in Abram Good’s Appeal, and Ault’s Appeal, above.
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Appeal, No. 870, Jan. T., 1892, by John Good, executor of George Good, deceased, from decree of O. G. Lycoming Co., dismissing exceptions to report of auditor on exceptions and to distribute executor’s account. The facts of this case are partially set forth in Abram Good’s Appeal, and Ault’s Appeal, above. It further appeared from the auditor’s report that in 1881, the appellant, John Good, as executor of George Good, deceased, was ordered by the orphans’ court to insure his mill property for $5,000, and keep such insurance at his individual expense, as additional security for the moneys in…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Mitchell,
The order of the orphans’ court in 1881 was in the alternative, that the executor and trustee should procure and maintain at his individual expense an insurance on his mill property which was the security for his debt to the estate, or file a bond with sureties. The latter alternative at least was clearly within the authority of the court to order, as part of its control over the trustee, and the wisdom of its exercise is not for us to discuss. No objection seems to have been made by the trustee to *310this order. Under it he elected to procure the insurance on his…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Estate of BucknorPennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County · 1890
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