Legal Opinion

Estate of Thouron

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided July 15, 1897No. Appeal, No. 77PublishedCited by 15 opinions

Appeal, No. 77, Jan. T., 1897, by Nicholas Thouron, trustee, from decree of O.' C. Phila. Co., Oct. T., 1880, No. 175, sustaining exceptions to adjudication. Exceptions to adjudication. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Ferguson, J., the auditing judge, allowed the trustee 17,500 on account of commissions on the principal fund of the estate.

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Appeal, No. 77, Jan. T., 1897, by Nicholas Thouron, trustee, from decree of O.' C. Phila. Co., Oct. T., 1880, No. 175, sustaining exceptions to adjudication. Exceptions to adjudication. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Ferguson, J., the auditing judge, allowed the trustee 17,500 on account of commissions on the principal fund of the estate. The court in banc, Ashman, J., being absent, sustained exceptions to the adjudication, and disallowed the commissions. Ferguson, J., dissented from the court in banc. 6 Dist. Rep. 166. Error assigned was in sustaining exceptions to…

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Green,

The account under consideration is the fourth account filed by the present trustee, and its items occupy forty-six pages of *128solid printed matter, and vary in innumerable details from twenty-five cents to $179,796. It represents an account of capital and an account of income, including the distribution of the latter, in monthly payments to those entitled. The capital account starts with the balance of assets in hand from the third account, amounting to $179,796, and cash $17,865.60. The aggregate debits of this capital account at its close amount to $315,158.88, and…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Bosler's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1894

3Cited by15 opinions

  1. Williamson EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1951
  2. McCaskey's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1932
  3. Penn-Gaskell's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1904
  4. Ehret EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1967
  5. Sheffield v. CookeSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1916

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