Kingsland v. Scudder

The Ordinary.

This appeal is brought by the executor of the late Isaac W. Scudder, to review the action of the Hudson orphans court in refusing to allow him a charge of $3,000 for counsel fees in his final account. The charge is as follows :

“Allowance is prayed for a counsel fee to Jacob Weart, who has acted as counsel to the estate in the employment of the accountant, and by the assent of Mafy Scudder [one of the residuary legatees], and Isaac N. Arnold, guardian [of the others of those legatees who are infants]., who have agreed to the payment of S3,000 as a counsel fee as a j ust and…