Succession of Boatwright

Fergus Sathorn, testamentary executor of the last will of M. E. Boatwright, having filed an account and tableau, the heirs opposed the same “ on the ground that the commissions of said executor are overcharged; that the said executor never had the seizin of said estate, and that the amount of said commissions ought to be reduced.”

The commissions opposed are estimated upon “ $55,944, amount of the half of the deceased in the partnership of Boatwright & Swa.yze, and his personal property,” to wit, $1398 66.

The only expression in the will from which it is possible to infer an intention to give a…