Taylor v. Trefrey

Warner V. Taylor appeals from a decree of the Probate Court disallowing an item of $20,000 “for services in accordance with special agreement,” for which he asked credit in Schedule B of his first and final account as executor of the will of William F. Trefrey.

When Trefrey died in June, 1929, holding seven hundred sixty-three and fourteen fifteenths shares of stock in W. S. Quinby Company, a corporation engaged in the coffee business, Warner V. Taylor was president of that corporation and one of three executors and trustees under the will of W. S. Quinby, who had died about eight months…