Case ID: nc_6/html/0331-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "By tiie Court.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Lewis Bond and wife, and others, v. Thomas Turner’s executors.
    From Bertie,
    Ex’rs. and Adm’rs. The court is authorised to allow executors or administrators five per cent on their receipts anti five per cent on their expenditures. It may in its discretion allow less, but cannot allow more.
    This was a bill filed for on account and distribution of the estate of Thomas Turner, dec’d. The accounts were referred to the master, who made his report, and allowed the executors five per cent commission upon their receipts, and also five per cent upon their expenditures. Exceptions were filed to the report, on this point, and the case, .sent to this Court ,• and
   By tiie Court.

The court has the power of allowing five per cent commissions on their receipts and the same on their expenditures. The court may, in its dis. cretion, allow less, bat not more.