Legal Opinion

In re the Estate of Smolley

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided December 14, 1992PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

In a proceeding for the judicial settlement of the account of the executor of a decedent’s estate, the executor and his attorneys appeal from stated portions of a decree of the Surrogate’s Court, Queens County (Laurino, S.), dated March 15, 1991, which (a) fixed the commissions of the executor and the legal fees of the attorney for the estate in amounts less than requested, (b) denied fees and disbursements to the executor’s appellate counsel Samuel Lawrence Brennglass, relevant to a prior appeal, (c) directed the executor to pay to the respondent John R. Smolley, the son of the *536decedent, the…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. In re Accounting of Lincoln Rochester Trust Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1974
  2. In re the Estate of PottsAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1925
  3. Jessup v. . SmithNew York Court of Appeals · 1918
  4. In re the Accounting of BrehmAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1971
  5. In re the estate of UryAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1985

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. In re the Estate of BobeckAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1993
  2. Pressman v. Estate of SteinvorthDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1994
  3. Betz v. BlattAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2014
  4. In re the Estate of PapadogiannisAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1993
  5. In re the Estate of MergentimeAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1994

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