In re the Estate of Hayden

Foley, S.

There is presented for determination in this proceeding broüght to settle the account of the executors and trustees the interesting question of whether one of the accounting parties, Edgar A. Doubleday, in the lifetime of the testator agreed to accept the sum of $100,000 as his compensation as fiduciary and to waive his statutory commissions. The gross estate left by Mr. Hayden approximates $54,000,000, and the controversy becomes important because of the fact that the difference between the fixed amount alleged to have been agreed to and the statutory commissions presently claimed…