In re the Estate of Cupid

The committee, as petitioner, instituted this proceeding to recover the sum of $944.93, which one Lewis A. Rosen, an attorney, retained in his possession after demand, claiming that the sum represented legal fees due him for his services in collecting an insurance policy by virtue of a retainer signed by Etta Cupid, now an incompetent person, and then a parolee from a former commitment to an institution for the care of the insane.

In the alternative, it was asked that he should be directed to pay over such balance of $944.93 as the court might determine to be due after deciding what fee, if…