Williamson Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Allen M. Stearne,

A corporate fiduciary presents a “test case” seeking to induce this Court to overrule a long line of cases extending for over a century and a half which established principles of fiduciary compensation. The appeals are an effort to induce a general revision of the compensation of trustees. It constitutes an almost perennial attempt by corporate fiduciaries to secure increased compensation and also interim commissions on principal.

The Philadelphia Orphans’ Court decided that it was bound by the many decisions of this Court. It declined to award additional…