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(1): The Court affirms the views of Deane J about executors drawing, commission before the Court has sanctioned it; i... the Court severely dis- approves of the practice and is of the opinion that in future cases the Court
ought to refuse to sanction commission.
(2), As no pronouncement to this effect by a Judge of the Supreme Court has ever been reported (so far as we know) and as the practice is fairly common, we think it -is rather hard that, in this case the executors should, on this sole ground, lose all their commission. Palm (8) We therefore order a re
trial before another Judge if possible at which the conduct of the executors as Fexecutors (apart from the Incident Just referred to) can be gone into. The as- sessment (if any) can then be based upon the considers- tion of their whole conduct. throughout t
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