Kogut v. Brenner

In this proceeding, Henry J. Kogut seeks an allowance of compensation for his services as co-executor under the will of Mary Kogut, late of Woonsocket. The Probate Court allowed him $750, of which $250 was to reimburse him for the services of counsel he had retained. Dissatisfied with that allowance, Kogut appealed to the Superior Court where a trial justice sitting without a jury allowed him $1,842 for his own services but awarded nothing for those of his counsel, whose services the trial justice found had not benefited the estate. Gerald M. Brenner, the other co-executor and the residuary…