In re the Accounting of Utter

Appeal by the administrators of the goods, chattels and credits of deceased from that part of a decree of the Surrogate’s Court, Madison County, which fixed and determined the sum of $750 as compensation for respondent for legal services and expenses and directed its payment from the general estate. The services alleged by respondent to have benefited the estate were rendered at the request of his own client, one of five distributees of deceased, and in our judgment solely in the protection of his interests and without benefit to the estate. In these circumstances respondent must look to the…