In re the Estate of Corning

Taylor, S.

The problems presented may be very simply stated, and it would seem that in larger estates they must be of more or less daily occurrence, yet painstaking and diligent research on the part of counsel, as well as the efforts of the surrogate, have failed to disclose any existing pertinent authority.

The first question for determination is with respect to claimed commissions upon alleged increment in the corpus of the different trusts involved. To take the figures from one of the trusts, it appears that there was an increase' in the corpus arising from sales, redemptions and collections…