Legal Opinion

Jones Estate

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 23, 1948No. Appeals, 48 to 51PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Dithrich, J.,

The income beneficiaries, life tenants of a trust under the will of Margaret E. McCarty Jones, deceased, have appealed from the refusal of the learned auditing judge to require the trustee to compensate them for loss of income resulting from two nonlegal investments by the trustee and the disapproval of their claim for counsel fees. The losses resulted in the trustee being surcharged in the respective amounts of $6650 and $6140.

The learned auditing judge, in dismissing appellants’ exceptions to his failure or omission to compensate them for loss of income, said: “At no…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Rambo's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1937
  2. Lewis EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1944
  3. Norris's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1872
  4. Hemphill's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1852
  5. Ward EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1944

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3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. v. GreeneDistrict Court, W.D. Pennsylvania · 1983
  2. Dorsett v. HughesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1986

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