Garden v. Riley

Kenna, Judge:

The matter in controversy in this proceeding is the reasonableness of a charge for professional services of the law firms of Erskine, Palmer & Cnrl and Handlan, Garden & Mathews, and of John P. Arbenz made against T. S. Riley, Lewis F. Brand and George W. Oldham, executors of the estate of James L. Hawley, deceased. The services for which the charge was made were rendered to James L. Hawley during his lifetime. The attorneys named, after the death of James L. Hawley, filed their joint account before George C. Beneke, commissioner of accounts for Ohio County, before whom, at the…