In re the Estate of Willson

Appeal from so much of a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of St. Lawrence County as, in effect, denied double commissions to a corporate fiduciary acting as executor and as trustee. The appeal is not contested and, indeed, there was no objection on the accounting before the Surrogate, by any party, to the commissions requested. Under the will, the trust was to be, and was, carved from the residuary estate, after the payment of numerous monetary and specific bequests; the testator explicitly stated his intention that all such bequests be paid “ before the setting up of the trust”; the severance…