Newhall Appeal

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Patterson,

These appeals are from a decree of the common pleas surcharging an assignee for benefit of creditors for alleged excessive expenditures in payment of commissions and counsel fees.

C. S. Newhall, remaining assignee for benefit of creditors of Reilly, Brock & Company, a banking and brokerage partnership, filed his second and final account on November 29,1940. In this account he claimed credit for assignees’ commissions and counsel fees paid following the adjudication of the assignees’ first account more than nine years before. Credit was also claimed for $6,504.72…