Estate Bernice P. Bishop

I respectfully dissent from so much of tbe opinion of the majority as affirms the action of the trial judge in sustaining the exceptions of the trustees to the findings and recommendations of the master in respect to expenses incurred for bookkeeping, clerk hire, collection commissions and bond premiums. Nor do I subscribe to any notion that the decree of November 15, 1920, constitutes res adjudicate, and forecloses the attorney general from challenging those items in this case.

Due to the action of the 1943 legislature in amending the law (R. L. H. 1935, § 3793) in respect to the compensation…