In re the Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of the Temporary Administrator of Egan

Eitzgeraxd, S.

In re Estate of Lane, Surr. Dec. 1891, p. 388, the question was whether the temporary administrator was entitled to receive compensation measured by the value of his services, which he claimed to be in excess of the commissions fixed by statute for the services of an executor or administrator.. It was held that the statutory commissions furnished the stan*41dard to be applied in measuring his remuneration, but no determination was made that the court, in applying the standard, should confine it to cases in which an executor or administrator could be awarded commissions. The fact…