Beekman v. Beekman

This is an action for an 'accounting of a trust. One of the defendants, a former attorney for the trustee, moves to dismiss on the pleadings on the ground that the complaint does not state a cause of action as to said defendant. The complaint, in addition to the usual allegations in trust accountings, alleges that the trustee, after the death of his co-trustee in 1908, employed the defendant attorney to prepare and conduct a judicial settlement of his accounts as trustee; that the services so rendered hy him were in behalf of and for the benefit" of the trust estate; that the trustee was and…