77 Mo. App. 333 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1898
March 8, 1896, Daniel R. Garrison, a resident of the city of St. Louis, died, leaving a last will. On March 26, 1896, Thomas Booth, qualified and received letters testamentai’y as executor of the will of Garrison, and administered Garrison’s estate, until June 6, 1897, when he died. The inventory of Garrison’s estate, as filed by Booth, consisted of real estate, cash, stocks, bonds, notes and miscellaneous chattels, aggregating $74,887.46 in value. To this amount was added income during the period of Booth’s administration, $3,597.32, making a total of personal estate to be accounted for by Booth’s executrix of $78,484.78. On June 15, 1897, the St. Louis Trust Company qualified as administrator de bonis non, with will annexed of the estate of Garrison, and on July 6, 1897, Mrs. Mary Louise Booth, executrix of the last will of Thomas Booth, presented to the probate court, city of St. Louis, the final settlement of Booth as executor of the estate of Garrison. In this settlement Booth was charged with the total sum of $78,484.78, and asked credit for the gross sum of $12,721.17. This settlement was approved by the probate court, and the sum of $1,962.11 was allowed the Booth estate as commission for the services of Booth as executor, being one half of five per cent on $78,484.78. One hundred dollars attorney’s
The abstract filed by plaintiff in error shows that a motion for new trial was filed and overruled, so does the transcript, but no exceptions were saved to this ruling of the circuit court, and the motion not being a part of the record proper, can not be considered here, and the cause must be treated as though no such motion was in fact filed. But the item to which the exception was made, to wit, the allowance of one half of five per cent commission on. $78,484.78 allowed the deceased executor is shown in the record; it is so expressly stated in the judgment of the probate court being written in the settlement that $1,962.11, one half of five per cent commission on $78,484.78 is allowed the deceased executor, and the judgment of the circuit court approves the settlement as made and allowed in the probate court. The error complained of is therefore patent on the face of the record proper and may be reviewed here and the judgment reversed, though no motion for a new trial was filed. South St. Joseph Land Co. v. Bretz, 125 Mo. 418; State ex rel. v. Scott, 104 Mo. 26; McIntire v. McIntire, 80 Mo. 470; Nelson Distilling Co. v. Hubbard, 53 Mo. App. 23. As full compensation for their services and trouble executors