In re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Proceedings of Title Guarantee and Trust Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the Title Guarantee and Trust Company and others, as sole surviving and acting executors, etc., of James Jennings McComb, deceased, from certain portions of a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of the county of Westchester, entered in said Surrogate’s Court on the 31st day of March, 1905, judicially settling the accounts of the said executors.
1Opinion of the Court
Hirschberg, P. J.:
An appeal was taken from the entire decree by one of the beneficiaries of the estate, hut it was stated upon the argument that that appeal had been withdrawn. There is left, therefore, for consideration only the appeal by the executors from so much of the decree . as disallows as a charge against the estate the amount paid by them to counsel who represented them in certain litigation, and one-half *779of the sum paid by them in discharge of the bill of the physician who attended the deceased in liis last illness.
The estate consists of several millions of dollars of real and…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Herzog v. . Title Guarantee Trust Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1903
- McComb v. Title Guarantee & Trust Co.New York Supreme Court · 1901
- Herzog v. Title Guarantee & Trust Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903
3Cited by5 opinions
- Dodd v. . AndersonNew York Court of Appeals · 1910
- In re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Proceedings of HoffmanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1910
- Dodd v. AndersonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1909
- Dodd v. AndersonNew York Supreme Court · 1908
- In re the Estate of EhmerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1998