35 N.J. Eq. 115 | N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div. | 1882
The testator appointed four executors, all of whom proved the will. The entire estate appears to have gone into the hands of three of them, the appellants; the other, the respondent, received no part thereof. The appellants filed an account in the Burlington orphans court, purporting to be the account of all four, while, in fact, it was only their own. The respondent claimed to be a creditor of the estate, in respect of debts which he alleged were due him from the testator, and also for money paid by him for legal advice as to his duty as executor in reference to that part of the estate which was in Pennsylvania; which claims his co-executors refused to pay. He filed exceptions to the account, because, among other reasons, of such refusal, and because the account was theirs, and not his. The orphans court allowed all the exceptions, and ordered that the executors be credited with the claims in the account. From that part of the order which allowed the claims the three accounting executors appealed.
The court had no jurisdiction to try the validity of the claims
The order of the orphans court will be reversed, so far as the allowance of the claims in question is concerned, with costs, but in all other respects it will be affirmed.