In re the Estate of Mackenzie

Wingate, S.

This is an application by the special guardian of an infant for the payment to him of the sum of $7,500 on account of his services in that capacity, together with the further sum of $500 for disbursements alleged to have been necessarily made or incurred.

The proceeding is a contested probate. The estate involved admittedly exceeds half a million dollars in gross value. The decedent was survived by a widow, a daughter and three sons, one of whom died intestate shortly after the death of his father leaving a widow and three infant children. The widow was appointed administratrix and…