Cohn v. Cohn

ADAMS, J.:

This appeal questions the granting of a $1000.00 master’s fee in an uncontested divorce action. On rehearing the chancellor reduced the fee to $750.00. The award was made upon the master’s report that:

“The Master has received no fees for his services in this matter but would show to the Court that there have been five or six hearings and many, many conferences with both the attorneys for the parties and the parties themselves, both in the presence of the counsel and at times when no counsel was present and innumerable telephone conversations. The Master is of the opinion that all…