In re Anderson

Wingate, S.

This is an application professedly instituted under section 231-a of the Surrogate’s Court Act for the purpose of determining the reasonable value of the services of petitioner’s former attorney who has since been discharged. It appears that the services were partly rendered for the estate of which the petitioner is executrix and sole beneficiary and partly for the petitioner as an individual. The former consisted of the probate of the will and the collection of certain sums under an insurance policy, and the latter related to the collection of the principal sum on an insurance…