Case ID: pa-d-c_45/html/0333-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Sinkler, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Kenin’s Estate
    
      William E. Mikell, Jr., and Bernard R. Cohn, for exceptants.
    
      Harry M. Miller and Henry W. Braude, contra.
    August 12, 1942.
   Sinkler, J.,

The auditing judge committed no error in refusing to allow a debt due the executor in its corporate capacity to be set off against a distributee of the estate of which it is executor. From Darroch’s Executors v. Hay’s Administrators, 2 Yeates 208, to Wentz’s Estate, 225 Pa. 566, it has been consistently held that claims due an executor, individually, cannot be set off against a claim due by the estate.

We dismiss the exceptions, without prejudice, however, to any right that exceptant may have, in its corporate capacity, to proceed directly against the distributee in appropriate proceedings.