In re the Estate of Pardee

Hart, S.

The petitioners, Franchot, Runals, Cohen, Taylor & Rickert, presented to this court a petition asking to have the value of their services to the executors of the estate of Jesse Homan Pardee, deceased, of the city of Buffalo, Erie county, N. Y., fixed by order of this court. The respondent Mary M. Pardee, one of said executors, interposed an objection, first, on the ground that the court has no jurisdiction to determine the value of the services rendered by said attorneys to said executors, and, second, demanding a jury trial of the issues raised.

This is a proceeding against the…