Descamp Estate

Opinion by

Me. Justice Musmanno,

Judith Ruth Descamp is the helpless stepchild of a deceased war veteran of the United States. About a year before the minor’s eighteenth birthday, her guardian was notified by the Veterans’ Administration and Social Security Administration that all benefits payable in her behalf by those agencies would cease as of her eighteenth birthday. The guardian, Pittsburgh National Bank, appealed from this decision to the agencies involved. Counsel was engaged to press the claims of the ward. The appeals were successful. and counsel charged a fee of $1100 for his…