In re the Application for the Payment of Administration Expenses in the Estate of Bauman

The respondent, one of the stenographers of the Surrogate’s Court, county of New York, obtained a decree of that court directing the payment to him of the sum of $1,925 for services rendered at the request of counsel and at the direction of the surrogate, in furnishing three copies of testimony during the trial of a will contest. The trial lasted about six days, and respondent was compelled to employ extra typists. Several of the installments of the testimony were delivered very late at night of the same day on which it was taken or at the opening of court the next morning. The record…