In re the Estate of Sobel

S. Samuel Di Falco, S.

One of the executors of the estate of a deceased trustee makes application for compensation, pursuant to section 257 of the Surrogate’s Court Act,' for services in rendering an accounting of the deceased trustee’s administration of the trust. The compensation sought is not intended to include legal services rendered by the petitioner as an attorney.

The statute upon which the petitioner relies permits compensation, equivalent to commissions, for the services actually rendered by the trustee in his lifetime but when, as in the instant *101case, the trust administration is…