Case ID: nj-eq_42/html/0630-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Samuel B. Pickel et al., executors, appellants, v. Mary Ann Alpaugh et al., respondents.
    The orphans court has jurisdiction to examine into the fairness of inventories by exceptions thereto. Where the record disclosed no ground for dismissing such exceptions, an order of that court refusing to dismiss was affirmed.
    Appeal from order of Hunterdon orphans court.
    
      Mr. E. P. Conhling and Mr. J. F. Dwmont, for appellants.
    
      Mr. J. N. Voorhees and Mr. W A. Cotter, for respondents.
   THE ORDINARY.

This appeal is from an order of the orphans court of Hunter-don county, denying a motion to dismiss exceptions filed by legatees to the inventory. The ground of the motion was that the exceptions were improvidently and illegally filed. There is nothing in the record to support the objection. The orphans court has full power and authority to hear and determine all controversies respecting the fairness of inventories {Rev. p. 75S § %), and one method of questioning the fairness of an inventory is by filing exceptions to it. Dilts v. Stevenson, 2 C. E. Gr. 407. The order will be affirmed, with costs.