Succession of Weil

HAMITER, Justice.

Touro Infirmary, the residuary legatee of decedent, Emanuel Leopold Weil, has appealed suspensively from a judgment awarding to Leopold Stahl -a fee of $15,-000 for legal services rendered as attorney for the executor in Weil’s succession proceedings. In an answer to the appeal, Stahl asks for an increase of the judgment to $20,000, the amount for which he was placed on the final account by the executor ; and he also prays for 5% per annum interest thereon from September 10, 1942, the date of the filing of the account.

Weil, who was a resident of New Orleans, a widower, and a…