Kern's Estate

Stearne, J.,

Six exceptions are filed to an adjudication of a trustee’s account by the administratrix, and by creditors, of a deceased life tenant, whose income was protected by the provisions of a spendthrift trust.

By the first exception exceptants complain that the auditing judge refused to surcharge the trustee with the sum of $4,034.65, representing interest and penalties paid on delinquent real estate taxes. The reason for the delinquency was that the trustee permitted the life ten*73ant to consume the entire income. Had the remaindermen excepted, such action on the part of the trustee could…