Davidson's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Stern,

We are here called upon to review the amounts allowed by the court below as compensation to a co-executor and to counsel of a decedent’s estate. The heirs have appealed on the ground that the awards were excessive, the recipients on the ground that they were inadequate.

Decedent died, testate, in August, 1930, leaving an estate the gross assets of which were then valued at approximately $1,223,000, of which $1,089,000 was personalty and $134,000 real estate. Of the four executors named in his will, two renounced their right; the others, Samuel K. Davidson and The…