Estate of Perry

Letters of administration with the will annexed were issued to A. H. Dixon in the matter of the estate of John N. Perry, deceased, and pursuant to the intermediary steps leading up to the filing of said administrator’s final account and petition for distribution, which are not included in the record brought here, they were filed on the twelfth day of May, 1922; the respondent filed objections and exceptions thereto, and this appeal is taken by the administrator from the order settling his final account in accordance with said exceptions.

The final account as first presented by the administrator charges him with cash on hand upon settlement of his first account, $353.49, and he asks credit for $330.54, which latter amount included $154.63 as his fee, and the same amount as attorney’s fee, besides fifty cents for verification of complaint and $7 paid for filing the same in an action by said administrator against one Matteo Bufrano.

The respondent objected to settlement of such account, alleging that she was the devisee under the will of said decedent, and that appellant had not accounted for two promissory notes for $500 each, due the estate from Matteo Bufrano, as she claimed…