6.  Conclusiveness  of  Settlement  —  Distinction  between  Partial
and  Final  Accounting,  —  Perpetuating  Evidence  of  Distribution.  —
Procuring  Final  Discharge,  —  Liability  of  Representative  after  Dis-
charge, —  The  final  settlement  of  an  administration  account  in  the
probate  court,  upon  due  citation/  is  conclusive  as  to  all  matters
which  came  directly  before  the  court,  and,  unless  impeached  for
fraud  or  manifest  error,  can  only  be  called  in  question  by  a  direct
proceeding,  as  an  appeal  or  writ  of  error.*    A  partial  or  annual

allowed  all  reasonable  charges  and    dis-  77;  Sever  z'.  Russell,  4  Cush.  (Mass.)  513;

bursements  for  the  benefit  of  the  estate  Crawford  v,  Redus,  54  Miss.  700.
they  represent,  and  a  reasonable  recom-       As  to  creating  decree  on  an  executor's

pense  for  their  trouble  in  preference  to  any  accounting  because  of  the  infancy  of  an

creditor  of  the  deceased.    Nimmo  v.  Com-  interested  party,  see  Re  Tilden,  9^  N.  Y.
monwealth,  4  H.  &  M.  (Va.)  57;  Edelen  v.  434.
