Estate of Murphy

On the 26th of March, 1886, Adam Grant, desiring to retire from his office as executor, filed his report and account; on the 10th of April, 1886, Anna L. Murphy, widow, and Helen and Fannie Murphy, daughters of decedent, filed exceptions to said account, and on the 17th of April, 1886, they filed a supplemental and additional objection. Isabella Murphy, another daughter of decedent, on the said last-mentioned dates, filed in her own behalf separate exceptions and supplemental exceptions to said account. The matter came up Tor hearing on the 17th of April, 1886, and occupied, from time to time, until August 28, 1886, when, after argument, it was submitted for the consideration and decision of the court. The testimony is comprised in a volume of six hundred and six typewritten pages, which the court has considered.

I cannot undertake to do more than to state the results of my reflection upon the evidence and arguments.

The objections and exceptions to the account as a whole are overruled and denied.

Whatever may have been the inducements which caused the contestants to execute the ten years lease, this court cannot here treat that instrument as invalid.

*16 While the executor…