In re the Estate of Chaves

Foley, S.

This is an application under section 231-a of the Surrogate’s Court Act to fix the compensation of the attorney for the sole vested remainderman, and to direct payment thereof out of the general estate. The services of the petitioner were rendered in a contested accounting proceeding. A dispute arose between the executrix, who is also the life tenant, and the remainderman as to the method of computing the income during the executorial year and the application of the rule in Matter of Lord (134 Misc. 198; affd., 228 App. Div. 771) and Matter of Benson (96 N. Y. 499). Other and more…