In re the Estate of Post

Wingate, S.

The present application by an attorney for a fixation of his fees under section 231-a of the Surrogate’s Court Act presents a triple aspect. The first concerns his right to remuneration for services in the recovery of certain stock in the possession of the executors, title to which was claimed by his client; the second, for services rendered in an action in the Municipal Court on behalf of herself and her husband; and the third, for the defeat of a counterclaim by the executors against the legatee, which was litigated in the accounting proceeding in this court.

*390The first claimed…