Estate of Zerbey

CAVANAUGH, Judge:

This is an appeal from a final decree of the Orphans’ Court Division of the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylkill County dismissing exceptions to the court’s adjudication which confirmed the trustees’ accounts. The court also dismissed the exceptants’ petitions for allowance of counsel fee filed by various family members but these exceptions are not part of this appeal.

On August 19, 1932, Joseph Henry Zerbey (hereinafter referred to as testator) who was then seventy-four years of age and possessed of a substantial estate, executed his will. At that time his heirs consisted of…